Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Lancashire Record Office - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
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__________________________________________________________________________<strong>Lancashire</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>Office</strong>: What’s in it for <strong>Blackburn</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Darwen</strong>?Turnpike TrustsTurnpike Trusts were bodies set up by Act of Parliament <strong>with</strong> powers to collect tollsfor maintaining the principal highways in Britain during the eighteenth andnineteenth century. At the peak in the 1830s, over 1000 trusts administered around30,000 miles of turnpike road in England and Wales, taking tolls at almost 8000toll-gates and side-bars.OurReference Turnpike Trust DescriptionQDT 1 <strong>Blackburn</strong> and BurscoughBridge; <strong>Blackburn</strong> toPreston, <strong>Blackburn</strong> toWalton Cop; <strong>Blackburn</strong>,Padiham, Burnley. Colneand Yorkshire; Bolton to<strong>Blackburn</strong>; Bury and<strong>Blackburn</strong>; Bury,Haslingden <strong>Blackburn</strong> andWhalley;TTABury, Haslingden <strong>Blackburn</strong>and Whalley;• Annual statements of accounts1820s-1890 <strong>with</strong> gaps• Minutes 1789-1875; note bookof accounts and trustees 1820-1840TTB Clitheroe and <strong>Blackburn</strong> • Minutes 1845-1881; mortgagebook 1823-1871; plan of tollroadsTTE <strong>Blackburn</strong> and BurscoughBridge• Order book 1755-1793;account books 1755-1803TTJ <strong>Blackburn</strong> to Preston • Plans, documents re Bill 1824;minutes 1824-1842; Act formaintaining the road 1852DDBD 57 <strong>Blackburn</strong> to Addingham • Accounts, statements ofexpenditure and toll lettings1817-1872DDX 680 <strong>Blackburn</strong> and Cocking End • Toll books 1847, 1860s-188043
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