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These Acts of Parliament relate the roads and bridges located throughout Britain, and to the construction, repair and maintenance thereof. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends ; from George III on they are by date of passage . Local and Personal Acts, and Private Acts are identified by "Cap." numbers in green.

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
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Reign of William and Mary
(Later William III)

• [Anno 7&8, p.581-88]. ... for the better Amending and Repairing the High-ways, and Explanation of the Laws relating thereunto. $35

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 1, p.375-88]. ... for the better Repairing and Amending the High-ways, from the North End of Thornwood-Common, to Woodford in the County of Essex. $30

Reign of George I

• [Anno 13, p.779-98]. ... Amending the Highways leading from Royston in ... Hertford, to Wandsford Bridge in ... Huntingdon. $20

Reign of George II

• [Anno 1, p.603-07]. ... for building a Bridge cross the river of Thames, from the Town of Fulham ... to the Town of Putney ... $35

• [Anno 4, p.71-87]. ... repairing the Road leading from ... Butt Lane in ... Lawton ... of Chester ... to Henshall's Smithy upon Cranage Green .. $15
• [Anno 4, p.423-31]. repairing the Road leading from Godstone in ... Surrey, to Highgate ... of Sussex. $20
• [Anno 4, p.683-96]. ... repairing the Road leading from the Town of Fulham, in ... Middlesex ... [to] Hammersmith ... $18

• [Anno 5, p.427-38]. ... repairing the Highways between Dunstable and Hockliffe in ... Bedford ... $15

• [Anno 7, p.211-14]. ... to oblige the Possessors of Lands adjacent to common Highways, to cut and keep low such Hedges ... $22
• [Anno 7, p.423-35]. ... for repairing the several roads leading from the Town of Ledbury in the County of Hereford (edges creased and worn). $15

• [Anno 9, p.315-16]. ... reviving and continuing ... An Act for making the Laws for repairing the Highways more effectual. relating to appointing Scavengers in Cities and Market Towns ... $15
• [Anno 9, p. 555-67]. ... making more effectual Two Acts ... for repairing the Road from High Gate-house ... Middlesex, to Barnet Blockhouse ... Hertford; and the Road from Bear Inn in Hadley, to the Angel in Enfield Chace; and for amending Cane-wood Lane ... Middlesex. $18

• [Anno 16, p.375-82]. ... for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by ... An Act for the more effectual repairing the Roads leading from Wade's Mill in ... Hereford, to Barley and Royston ..." $15

• [Anno 22, p.219-48]. ... for repairing the Road from ... Newcastle upon Tyne ... to the North Side of the River Wanspeck, in ... Northumberland. $20
• [Anno 22, p.251-63]. ... to continue Two Acts ... for repairing and enlarging the Road leading from ... Rochester, to Maidstone ... $15
• [Anno 22, p.267-94]. ... for repairing the Road from North Shields in Northumberland to ... Newcastle upon Tyne. $20
• [Anno 22, p.335-46]. ...making more effective Two Acts ... for repairing the Road leading from Sherbrooke Hill ... to Manchester ... $18

• [Anno 23, p.335-58]. ... Repairing the Roads leading from Dunglas Bridge ... to Ravenshaughburn ... $18

• [Anno 24, p.871-91]. ... for repairing the High Roads ... to and from the City of Edinburgh; and from Cramond Bridge to ... Queen's Ferry ... $18
• [Anno 24, p.1039-44]. ... for the more effectual Preservation of the Turnpike Roads; and for the Disposition of Penalties ... relating to the Highways ...; and for ... preventing of Mischiefs occassioned by the Drivers riding upon Carts, Drays, Carrs, and Waggons, in the city of London ... $18

• [Anno 26, p.3-19]. ... repairing and widening the several Roads ... leading from Tweedcross towards the City of Edinburgh, by Blyth Bridge, La Mancha, and Wheam, [etc.] ... $15
• [Anno 26, p.3-26]. ... repairing Roads from Livingstoun ... to the City of Glasgow ... $15
• [Anno 26, p.3-26]. ... for repairing the Road from North Queen's Ferry ... to the Town of Perth; and also ... [to] Culross; and also ... to Bruntisland and Kirkaldie. $15
• [Anno 26, p.3-15]. ... to continue and render more effectual several Acts ... for repairing the Highways leading to Highgate Gatehouse and Hampstead ... $18
• [Anno 26, p.3-22]. ... enlarging ... An Act for repairing the Road from Shoreditch Church through Hackney ... $18
• [Anno 26, p.3-26]. ... for continuing ... Two Acts ... for repairing the Roads from ... Enfield ... [to] Hertford ... $15

• [Anno 27, p.119-30]. ...to explain, amend, and render more effectual ... An Act for repairing several Roads leading into the City of Glasgow. $15
• [Anno 27, p.467-88]. ... keeping in repair, a Road from Ratcliff Highway, ... into the County of Essex; and ... Brook Street into Cable Street; [etc.] ... $18

• [Anno 28, p.59-83]. ... for repairing and widening the Road from Sutton ... to Povey Cross, and from Sutton ... to Ewell; and also ... from Tadworth ... to the Bottom of Pebble Hill ... $20
• [Anno 28, p.343-51]. ... enlarging the Term and Powers granted by ... An Act for repairing the High Roads in the County of Edinburgh ... $18
• [Anno 28, p.411-20]. ... to amend ... An Act for the Amendment and Preservation of the Publick Highways and Turnpike Roads ... $20

• [Anno 29, p.1315-55]. ... to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act for repairing the Road from Shrewsbury to Wrexham, in ... Denbigh, ... and the Road from Wrexham to Chester, and from thence to Penn Ford y Waen, in ... Whitford; and also the Road from Broughton to Mold, in ... Flint. $20

• [Anno 32, p.303-07]. ... for the better Preservation of the Turnpike Roads in ... Scotland. $22

Reign of George III

• [Anno 5, Cap.38]. ... to continue Part of ... An Act to render more effectual the several Laws ... for the Amendment and Preservation of the Publick Highways and Turnpike Roads ...; and for making further Provisions for the Preservation of the said Roads. $25

• [Anno 6, Cap.34]. ... for widening several Streets, Lanes, Ways, and Passages, within the City of Bristol, and for opening several new Streets and Passages; and for explaining, amending, and enlarging ... several Acts passed for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets and other Places, within the said City ... (40 p.) $35

• [Anno 8, p.271-86]. ... for making and widening a ... Street from the Salt Market Street, in the City of Glasgow, to St. Andrew's Church; and for enlarging ... the Church-yard ...[for] building a convenient Exchange or Square ... for for improving the Navigation of the River Clyde ... $25

• [Anno 10, Cap.104]. ... to explain and amend an Act ... for improving the Navigation of the River Clyde to the City of Glasgow, and for building a Bridge cross the said River from the said City to the Village of Gorbells (1837 reprint). $12

• [Anno 12, Cap.[82]]. ... for Repairing and Widening several Roads leading through the County of Lanerk, and for building a Bridge over the River Clyde at or near a Place called the Howford ... (33 pp.) $18
• [Anno 12, Cap.[83]]. ... to continue and render more effectual an Act ... for repairing the Road from the North Queen's Ferry, through ... Inverkeithing and Kinross, to ... Perth; and also the Road ... to ... Dumfermline, Torryburn, and Culross; and also the Road ... through Inverkeithing, to Bruntisland and Kirkcaldie. $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[90]]. ... for Repairing and Widening the Road from the West End of Saint Ives Lane, in ... Saint Neots, ... Huntingdon, to the Pavement at the End of Bell Lane, in ... Cambridge. $18
• [Anno 12, Cap.[91]]. ... for Repairing and Widening the Road from the Warwick Road near Solihull, to the Guide Post in Kenilworth; and from Stone Bridge, to meet the aforesaid Road on Balsall Common, in the County of Warwick. (28 pp.) $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[92]]. ... to continue, amend, and render more effectual, an Act ... for repairing the Roads from Tunbridge Wells, in ... Kent, to Swift's Den, in ... Etchingham, and from Frant to Possingworth Great Wood, adjoining the Turnpike Road there leading to Black Boys, in ... Sussex. $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[95]]. ... for Repairing and Amending the Road from Berstreet Gates, in ... Norwich, to New Buckenham, in ... Norfolk. (29 pp.) $18
• [Anno 12, Cap.[96]]. ... for Repairing, Widening, and keeping in repair the Road from Burlton, in ... Salop, through Knockin, to Llanymynech, ... and from Knockin to the East End of Llanriader Road, and from Place Carrick Lane to the Turnpike Road from Llanymynech to Oswestry near Coid Issa Mountain, and from Oswestry Turnpike Road on Knockin Heath, to the East End of Knockin Lane. $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.[97]]. ... for repairing and widening the Roads from the Confines of the County of Berwick, at or near Banghouse Walls to Compton's Lanes, and Eymouth, and from the Town of Eccles to Eymouth, and from Whitelaw Muir to Compton's Lanes ... $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[98]]. ... for Repairing and Widening the Road leading from the East End of the Bridge across the River Ouze, in Downham Market, to the Queen's Head; and from the Chequer Inn ... to the East End of the Two Mile Close, in ... Barton, and towards Watton, to ... The Devil's Ditch, in .... Norfolk; and for stopping up the Road leading from Stradset, through Barton Layes, towards Watton. $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.[99]]. ... for enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts ... for Repairing and Widening Old Street Road, in the Parishes of Saint Luke and Saint Leonard in ... Middlesex. $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[100]]. ... for building a Temporary Bridge over the River Tyne, between ... Newcastle upon Tyne and Gatehead, in ... Durham. $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.[101]]. ... to continue the Term, and vary the Powers, of so much of an Act ... for repairing the Road from Sutton Coldfield Common, and several other Roads therein described, in ... Stafford, as relates to Wolverhampton ... (28 pp.) $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[102]]. ... for repealing certain Provisions in Two Acts ..., so far as the same relate to repairing the Highways in ... Saint Mary Matselon, otherwise Whitechapel, in ... Middlesex; and for raising Money for Repairing the said Highways. $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.[103]]. ... for the better Preservation of the Great Bank of the River Welland, from Spalding High Bridge, through Cowbit, Peakill, Crowland, and Peakirk, and for making and keeping in Repair a Road thereon, and from thence to ... Glenton, in ... Lincoln and Northampton. (32 pp.) $20

• [Anno 13, Cap.[87]]. ... for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act ... ror repairing the Road from the Toll-gate in the Parish of Kettering, in ... Northampton, to Newport Pagnell, in ... Bucks. $15
• [Anno 13, Cap.[88]]. ... to continue the Term and alter the Powers of an Act ... for repairing and widening the Roads leading from a Place called Basingstone, near ... Bagshot, in ... Windlesham, in ... Surrey, through Frimley and Farnham, ... and from thence through Bentley, Hollyborn, Alton, Chawton, Ropley, Bishops Sutton, New Alresford, and Mattingley, otherwise Matterley Lane, to ... Winchester, in ... Southampton. $18

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.100*]. ... to alter and amend Three Acts ... for enabling Commissioners to errect and maintain a new Gaol and other Buildings for ... Edinburgh ...; and to enable the Trustees for Turnpike and other High Roads ... of Edinburgh to advance further sums of Money ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

Reign of William IV

• [Anno 2, Cap.17]. ... making and maintaining a Road from New Windsor ... Berks to ... Twyford ... Wilts. $15

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.68]. ... to continue ... the Local Turnpike Acts for Great Britain ... $8

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.24*]. ... to amend the Acts for building a Bridge over the River Avon, from Clifton ... in the County of Somerset. $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.59]. ... to continue ... an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. $8
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.61]. ... to make certain further Provisions for the Consolidation of Turnpike Trusts in South Wales. $15
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.71]. ... to extend certain Provisions ... for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Highways ... $8
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.73]. ... to enable to Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Works to apply certain Monies ... towards discharging the Incumbrances affecting the Shrewsbury and Holyhead Road. $10

• [Anno 11, Cap.4*]. ... for extending the Time for building a Bridge over the River Avon from Clifton ... in the County of Somerset. (Edgeworn) $5
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.16]. ... for the better Management and Control of the Highways in South Wales. $15

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.30]. ... to continue an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.37]. ... to continue certain Turnpike Acts ... $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.38]. ... to facilitate Arrangements for the relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls. $12

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.44]. ... to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. $8

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.66]. ... for rebuilding the Bridge over the River Ness at ... Inverness ...; and amending the Acts relating to Highland Roads and Bridges. $20

• [Anno 15, Cap.81*]. ... for maintaining the Road from Beach Down, near Battle, to Heathfield, and from the Railway Station near the Town of Robertsbridge to Hood's Corner, all in the County of Sussex. $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 17, Cap.7]. ... for extending the Time limited for putting into execution the Act ... for the better Management and Control of Highways in South Wales. $8

• [Anno 17, Cap.22]. ... to enable thte Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay ... for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repairing the Quay Wall of the River Liffey ..., and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over said River. $15

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.42]. ... to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. $8

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.51]. ... to confirm certain Provisional Orders ... to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls. $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.52]. ... to continue an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.58]. ... to continue certain Turnpike Acts ..., and to make further Provisions concerning Turnpike Roads ... $10

• [Anno 18, Cap.68*]. ... for amending "The Commercial Roads Act, 1828." and "The Commerical Roads Countinuation Act, 1849," and for other Purposes. $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.69]. ... to discontinue the taking of Toll on the Turnpike Roads leading from the City of Dublin and on the Turnpike Road from Kinnegad to Athlone, and to provide for the Maintenance ..., and for the Discharge of Debts due thereon ... $18

• [Anno 19&20, Cap.46*]. ... to discontinue the taking of Toll on the Turnpike Roads leading from the Town of Antrim toward Coleraine, and to provide for the future Maintenance ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 24&25, Cap.28]. ... to relieve certain Trusts on the Holyhead Road from Debts. $12

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