Wells and Highbridge Turnpike Trust (updated 18^th Feb 2009)

This trust was created in 1841, late in the turnpike era. Its main responsibilities were two roads running west from Wells across the Somerset Levels towards the Bristol Road.

List of Acts

Wells and Highbridge	Wells, Highbridge & Cheddar	4&5 Vic c98	1841
	Expired			1870

In “Return of length of road in each Turnpike Trust in England & Wales” Parl. Papers 1847-48 – (dated May 1848)

Trust reported 23 miles 6 furl. 209 yds (

List of Roads

(road identified and mapped in Somerset Roads – the Legacy of Turnpike, by Bentley and Murless 1985)

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Known Tollhouses (extracts from Tollhouse National database) 1 site identified

JRD/AR

OK

B3139

Wells to Highbridge

ST

3794

4790

Mark

SOSG

MARK

Tollhouse

Church Street

jct with Kingsway

T

the 19th century

still standing

WEHB

Known Milestones

In the Milestone Society Database, no milestones are identified along this road. Based on the mileage reported by the Trust in 1840, would expect 25.