A Treatise on Roads: Wherein the Principles on which Roads Should be Made are Explained and Illustrated, by the Plans, Specifications, and Contracts Made Use of by Thomas Telford, Esq. on the Holyhead Road |
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... Turnpike Roads 263 Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 Convexity 269 Drains 269 Embanking 269 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ROADS ...
... Turnpike Roads 263 Direction - 263 Convexity 264 Hardness 265 Drains 265 Embanking 265 Footpath 266 Side Channels 266 Wastes 266 Fences 266 Parish Roads 269 Surface 269 Convexity 269 Drains 269 Embanking 269 CHAP . X. REPAIRING ROADS ...
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... Turnpike System 288 Origin of Turnpike Roads 289 Defects of Turnpike Roads 290 To whom referable 291 Errors in Road Legislation Trustees 292 292 Committee of Management 296 Page Boards of Trustees too numerous Impunity of Trustees Mode ...
... Turnpike System 288 Origin of Turnpike Roads 289 Defects of Turnpike Roads 290 To whom referable 291 Errors in Road Legislation Trustees 292 292 Committee of Management 296 Page Boards of Trustees too numerous Impunity of Trustees Mode ...
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... Turnpike Bills - Board of Control over Trustees 297 299 300 300 301 Powers to be granted to this Board - 301 Control recommended by Committee of 1819 , and by Lords ' Committee of 1833 Inadequate Funds for making Roads Parish Roads ...
... Turnpike Bills - Board of Control over Trustees 297 299 300 300 301 Powers to be granted to this Board - 301 Control recommended by Committee of 1819 , and by Lords ' Committee of 1833 Inadequate Funds for making Roads Parish Roads ...
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... the House of Lords on Turnpike Road Trusts , 1833 NOTES . Page 386 - 400 NOTE A. Holyhead Road - Stowe Valley Im- provement NOTE B. NOTE C. NOTE D. - 405 423 · 430 434 A TREATISE ON ROAD S. INTRODUCTION . WHEN the state xii CONTENTS .
... the House of Lords on Turnpike Road Trusts , 1833 NOTES . Page 386 - 400 NOTE A. Holyhead Road - Stowe Valley Im- provement NOTE B. NOTE C. NOTE D. - 405 423 · 430 434 A TREATISE ON ROAD S. INTRODUCTION . WHEN the state xii CONTENTS .
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... turnpike system was in- troduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads in England , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was by a pound rate in the respective counties on the landholders ; and by the supplying of ...
... turnpike system was in- troduced . The ancient method employed to mend roads in England , until after the restoration of King Charles II . , was by a pound rate in the respective counties on the landholders ; and by the supplying of ...
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Allesley arch Archway road bottom breadth breast walls brick bridge broken stones built carriage centre coating Commissioners constructed contractor cross drains depôts depth district draught earth eighteen inches embankments engineer feet wide fences foot footpath formed Foster's Booth foundation four feet four inches gravel ground half Hartshill hill Holyhead Road horizontal horses improvement inches deep inches thick inches wide inclined plane J. C. LOUDON John Kershaw labour laid length line of road London masonry Menai Strait ment miles mortar necessary nine inches North Wales parish passing paved pavement pence placed Plate VII proper quicksets rails railway Rates of Inclination repair road materials road-making roadway side channels six inches sixteen inches slopes specification spirit level Stowe Hill streets surface surveyor Telford Thomas Baylis three feet three inches trustees turnpike roads valley velocity waggon weight wheels whole
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Page 23 - They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer; what therefore must it be after a winter?
Page 10 - All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north-west to the south-east point of the empire, was drawn out to the length of four thousand and eighty...
Page 23 - A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand.
Page 10 - The public roads were accurately divided by milestones, and ran in a direct line from one city to another, with very little respect for the obstacles either of nature or private property. Mountains were perforated, and bold arches thrown over the broadest and most rapid streams.
Page 291 - At many turnpikes, it has been said, the money levied is more than double of what is necessary for executing, in the completest manner, the work, which is often executed in a very slovenly manner, and sometimes not executed at all.