The Road Through Harpenden

by Chris Reynolds

 

The 1743 Turnpike Act

An Act for continuing an Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for amending and repairing the Roads from Luton in the County of Bedford, to Westwood-gate in the said County, and for repairing the Roads from Luton, to Saint Alban's in the County of Hertford.

This Act extends an existing Act for the road north of Luton, and makes the road from Luton to St Albans a turnpike for the first time.

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