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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
Roads heritage of the East Riding
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
RWH / updated April 2025