Trebarwith Sands Turnpike Trust (updated
13th Jan 2009)
This trust was created in 1825, relatively late in the turnpike era, to turnpike road down to Tebarwith Strand, to improve access to the sand used for manure on the land and provide an export route for locally quarried slate.
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Trebarwith Sands
1825
An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Trebarwith Sands on the Sea Shore, to Condolden Bridge, on the Road leading from Bossiney to Camelford, all in the County of Cornwall. [20th May 1825.]
the making and maintaining of a Turnpike
Road, to commence at Trebarwith Sands on the Sea Shore in the County of
Cornwall, and to extend in an Easterly Direction through the several Parishes
of Tintagel, Lantylos, and Minster, to Condolden Bridge on the Road leading
from Bossiney to Camelford, in the said County of Cornwall, will be of great
Advantage and Convenience to the Inhabitants of the said Towns, and to the
Owners and Occupiers of Lauds in the Neighbourhood, and will greatly facilitate
and render less expensive the Carriage and Conveyance of Sand from the Sea
Shore, to be used for Agricultural and other Purposes, and will otherwise be of
great public Utility.
Select Committee on State
of Roads 1840
William Fillis Pierce of Camelford (clerk to the trust) reported
There are 2 miles 3 furl 17 pl of road thru 2 parishes – all repaired by
the trustees
2 toll gates
The roads are stated to be in “good” condition – no part under
indictment for want of repair.
Report to Secretary of State 1855
BPP (1854/5) No.
1.—TREBARWITH SANDS ROAD.
The original Act for making this
road (the 6th of George IV.
cap, 84.) was passed in the year
1825. Its term would have
expired with the session of 1847, but has been extended by
the several Turnpike Acts Continuance
Acts until the 1st day of November 1855.
The length of this road
is less than 2.5 miles,
upon which there are two toll gates, about two miles apart,
which clear each other. The full
rates of toll allowed by the Local
Act arc levied.
The debts upon this road
amount to £2,478. 19s., and are due
to 28 creditors, in sums varying
from £12. 1s. to £614 12s. 6d.
The rate of interest payable was £5.
per cent.; but during the last 11
years an average of about £2. 10s. per cent, has been paid, leaving the sum
of £1,481. 14s. 3d. unpaid
interest on the 31st of December 1853.
The accounts show a falling off in the amount of toll
receipts, but not to any serious extent. The small amount of the toll
income in the year 1853 is thus accounted for by the clerk
to the Trustees :—" The lessee
for 1853 absconded " without paying his
rent; and his surety also
absconded." The amount received for tolls in
1853 was £60. 10s. only, leaving unpaid
the sum
of'£70. 10s. The account for 1853
also shows that the sum of £195. 17s'. ld. was due for "
arrears of former years." The repair
of the road has cost about £15 per annum; the salaries
were £25., and afterwards £30., but are now reduced to 10/. per
annum ; and portions of the interest
have been paid as far as the
funds would permit.
The
revenue of this Trust being small, it
appeared desirable to propose terms of
arrangement with the creditors,
in order to avoid the expenses of applying to Parliament.
The new tolls are specified
in clause 16, respecting which the clerk has made the following statement:— The
toll clauses in the existing Act are very
defective, inasmuch as there is every prospect of the Trebarwith Sands becoming a place of fashionable resort during
the summer months; and also, new slate
quarries are being opened very near the line of road, over which the traffic to and from such quarries would
principally pass, therefore the following additions have
been made:—For every horse or other beast
drawing any coach, stage coach,
&c.,, the sum of three-pence. In the existing Act,
Section 8, the same toll
of 3d. is charged only on
horses drawing any cart, waggon,
sledge, or other such vehicle,
no toll being mentioned
on horses drawing coaches, chaises, gigs, &o. ; yet by Section 8 it
is implied, that horses drawing stage
coaches, stage waggons, or post chaises were liable to pay toll. The clerk states that at present there is
no toll for horses, &c. drawing
coaches, chaises, &c., but stage coaches
and post chaises pay 3d. for
each horse.
The other new tolls
proposed in clause 16 are, on dogs or
goats drawing, 1d. each ; on carriages moved by steam or machinery 1s.
per wheel ; on oxen, &c. 10d, per score; and on sheep &c. 5d. per score. [The toll upon dogs drawing
appears to be unnecessary, as the use
of dogs for the purpose of drawing or helping
to draw any cart, carriage, truck, or
barrow, is prohibited, under heavy penalties, by a Public Act
of the last session, the 17th and 18th
of Victoria,
cap. 60.]
Clause 19 allows a full toll to be
taken for horses, &c. passing and
repassing once along the road,
except where drawing sand for agricultural purposes, as
herein-after mentioned; and by clause 22 the tolls on horses drawing carts,
&c. laden with sand or other material
or thing for agricultural
purposes are to be paid each time on passing through cither of
the said toll-gates.
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