Toll Gates and Turnpikes

Turnpikes

Subject Index 

The Turnpike Gate

See The Road through Harpenden

See Sparrows Herne


Hadley Gate

The Toll Gate, London Road, St Albans, circa 1890 - Post Card by Alpha, St Albans

Old Toll Gate, St Albans

 

 

Extract from John Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London showing the New Ground Gate, on the Sparrows Herne turnpike. (1790)

 

 

See Regulating Weights of Carriages

See The Toll Roads of Buckinghamshire - which contains a good generalised introduction on turnpikes and detailed descriptions of the Sparrows Herne turnpike and the Reading to Hatfield turnpike.

Wikipedia: Turnpike Trusts.

If you can add new links on the subject relating to Hertfordshire please tell me.

November 2017   Links updated