Did your #OnePlaceStudy have a turnpike road? #Rillington did, and part of this old route formed the current A64. #OnePlaceWednesday
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Turnpike Roads, by Pam Smith. For historians, turnpikes reveal how people, goods and information moved across the landscape before the arrival of modern transport. how-to-history.com/2026/05/27/t...
Pam Smith Turnpike roads were a system of road management used in England. They were first established in the seventeenth century but not used extensively until the eighteenth. The first turnpike w…