ABC/346 - English Local Government. The Story of the King's Highway

ABC/346

English Local Government. The Story of the King's Highway

1 volume

A theoretical study of the local English Roads Administration, as part of a bigger study of the English Local Government which began in 1899. Table of contents: The King's Highway before the Sixteenth Century; Road Legislation under the Tudors and the Stuarts; Parochial Road Administration; Road Administration by Presentment and Indictment; The New Users of the Roads in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century; The Maintenance of Bridges; The Turnpike Road; "Pontifex Maximus Telford" and "Macadam the Magician"; The Road Legislation of the Nineteenth Century; The New Users of the Roads in the Twentieth Century.

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