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The answer TURNPIKES has 8 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of turnpikes in various dictionaries:
noun - (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
noun - an expressway on which tolls are collected
noun - a highway on which tolls are collected
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Some roads |
| Parts of some pay-as-you-go plans? |
| Ways to convert weapons |
| US paying motorways — old toll gates |
| Toll gates |
| Tolls are taken on them |
| Turnpikes description |
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| Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak, in the 1830s, over 1,000 trusts administered around 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of turnpike road in England and Wales, taking tolls at almost 8,000 toll-gates and side-bars.During the early 19th century the concept of the turnpike trust was adopted and adapted to manage roads within the British Empire (Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa) and in the United States.Turnpikes declined with the coming of the railways and then the Local Government Act of 1888 gave responsibility for maintaining main roads to county councils and county borough councils. |