Roads and travel

Many interesting features can be found, especially in rural areas, which reflect the history of our highways.  Click on the links here for a variety of articles which do not always fit easily anywhere else.  They include:

Toll-houses: because these often stuck out into the road many have been demolished. The Society also records these.  See also : A toll-house at Lepton and Bridge chapels: our first toll-houses?

Packhorse roads, such as our newly-restored section between Marsden and Slaithwaite.

Causeys – see the article on Trods: paved tracks, some in unlikely places; for example, if you look over the pedestrian bridge leading from Bridge Street, Holmfirth to Crown Bottom car-park when the river is low you will see a paved stretch of the river-bed – for this was the main way into the village some centuries ago (pictured at bottom).

See also

Highways Acts: a brief summary

Street names and road history

Roads heritage of the East Riding

B6265: the road to nowhere

Mastiles Lane and wayside crosses around Malham

Trods: flagged paths in north-east Yorkshire

The Sedbergh Turnpike Trust and its milestones

Travelling around Huddersfield 1880-1920

Milestones on the roads west out of Halifax

Foiling invaders: waymarkers at war

More road history websites

RWH / updated April 2025

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