A guide to surveyors of the high-ways :

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Meriton, George, 1634-1711
Format:	Microform Book
Language:	English
Series:	Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 698:37.
Subjects:	Roads > Early works to 1800. Pavements > Early works to 1800. Roads > England. Highway law > England.

A guide to surveyors of the high-ways : shewing the office and duty of such surveyors, with several cases and resolutions in law relating to the same : collected and gathered out of publick acts of Parliament now in force, and out of the year-books, and other books of the municipal laws of this kingdom : with an abridgment of the statute of 22 H. 8 Chap. 5 for the repairing of bridges, with cases relating thereunto : and likewise a summary of the statutes made for paving, cleansing &c., streets, lanes, &c., in London and other towns and places, and an abstract of statutes made for the repairs of high-ways and bridges in particular places, methodiz'd into short chapters for the ready finding out any matter contain'd in the book /
by: Meriton, George, 1634-1711
Published: (1694)

The Parish surveyor's appointment and guide for the highways.
Published: (1821)

Observations on the case of such of the inhabitants of Kingston as apply to be included in the turnpike petition for, in order to repair the road from Kingston upon Thames in the county of Surry, to a place called Sheet-Bridge near Petersfield in the county of Southampton.
Published: (1748)

The case and allegations of the corporation and inhabitants of the city of Coventry, and of the inhabitants of Birmingham, and several other places : against such part of a bill brought into the House as relates to the repair of the high road from the end of Faseley bridge, in the county of Warwick, through Atherstone in the said county, to Lutterworth Hand, in the county of Leicester.
Published: (1760)

Rudiments of the art of constructing and repairing common roads /
by: Law, Henry, 1824-1900
Published: (1850)

A dissertation concerning the present state of the high roads of England, especially of those near London : wherein is propos'd a new method of repairing and maintaining them /
by: Phillips, Robert (Writer on road-making)

An Act for Repealing Certain Parts of Three Several Acts of Parliament of the First, Seventeenth, and the Thirtieth Years of the Reign of His Late Majesty King George the Second, Made for Repairing Several Roads Leading to and from the Borough of Evesham, in the County of Worcester, and for Repairing and Widening the Road from Evesham Bridge, in the said Borough, to the Globe Inn in Alcester, in the County of Warwick.
Published: (1778)

An act for amending, widening, altering and repairing the roads from Swell Wold ... in the county of Gloucester to or near the sixth mile stone on the turnpike road leading from the borough of Tewkesbury to the town of Stow, in the same county, and from the north east end of Swan Lane ... in the same county, to the turnpike road leading to Evesham ... in the county of Worcester, and from the town of Winchcomb, in ... Gloucester, by a place called Stamp Cross, to or near the tenth mile stone on the said turnpike road leading from Tewkesbury to Stow aforesaid.
Published: (1792)

Wood paving in London : a practical treatise /
by: Stevens, John Lee
Published: (1841)

A bill for making more effectual the several acts of Parliament passed for repairing the road from Cherill through Calne to Studley-bridge, in the county of Wilts.
Published: (1744)

A bill for repairing and widening the road, leading from a place called Harlow Bush Common, in the parish of Harlow, in the county of Essex, to a place called Stump Cross, in or near the furthermost part of the parish of Great Chesterford, in the said county.
Published: (1744)

A bill for continuing and enlarging the term and powers, granted by an act of Parliament, passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First : for repairing the road from Cranford-bridge, in the county of Middlesex, to that end of Maidenhead-bridge which lies in the county of Bucks.
Published: (1744)

Reasons for dividing the turnpike road from Kingston upon Thames, in the county of Surry, to Sheet-Bridge near Petersfield, in the county of Southampton, into two districts, under separate trusts.
Published: (1768)

The utility and advantages of broad high wheel-carriages : demonstrated rationally and mathematically, so as to be understood by any common capacity. Humbly inscrib'd to the commissioners and trustees of the several turnpikes and surveyors of the high-ways in Great Britain /
by: Wickham, Moses

Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation : being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.
by: Mace, Thomas, d. 1709?
Published: (1675)

Profit, conveniency, and pleasure, to the whole nation : being a short rational discourse, lately presented to His Majesty, concerning the high-ways of England : their badness, the causes thereof, the reasons of those causes, the impossibility of ever having them well-mended according to the old way of mending, but may most certainly be done, and for ever so maintained (according to this new way) substantially, and with very much ease : and so that in the very depth of winter there shall not be much dirt, no deep-cart-rutts, or high-ridges, no holes, or vneven places, nor so much as a loose stone (the very worst of evils both to man and horse) in any of the horse-tracts, nor shall any person have cause to be once put out of his way in any hundred of miles riding.
by: Mace, Thomas, -1709?
Published: (1675)

Gray's new book of roads : the tourist and traveller's guide to the roads of England and Wales, and part of Scotland ... /
by: Gray, George Carrington
Published: (1824)

Remarks, with a tabular statement, shewing the operation of the 19th clause of the proposed General turnpike bill on the roads within the borough of Leeds; being the result of inquiries ... : made at the request of the town council and the mortgagees of the greater part of the turnpike roads ... of Leeds, with an appendix containing observations on road management, tolls and shape of cart and waggon wheels, and the weights allowed them; and suggestions as to alterations being made in the laws on these subjects /
by: Bayldon, Richard
Published: (1843)

A bill for repairing the high-way or road from the city of Worcester to the burrough of Droitwich in the county of Worcester.
Published: (1714)

A bill for continuing an act passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, so far as the same relates to the repairing the road from Studley-bridge to Chippenham in the county of Wilts : and for amending the road from Chippenham to Pickwick in the said county.
Published: (1744)

Britannia, or, The Kingdom of England and dominion of Wales actually survey'd : with a geographical and historical description of the principal roads, explain'd by one hundred maps on copper-plates : with the ichnography, or drought of the several cities, chief towns, &c., and a view of the churches, houses, and places of pote on the road : also an account of the most remarkable passages of antiquity relating to them, and of their present state /
by: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Published: (1698)

Britannia, or, The Kingdom of England and dominion of Wales actually survey'd : with a geographical and historical description of the principal roads, explain'd by one hundred maps on copper-plates : with the ichnography, or drought of the several cities, chief towns, &c., and a view of the churches, houses, and places of pote on the road : also an account of the most remarkable passages of antiquity relating to them, and of their present state /
by: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676

A bill for rectifying mistakes, and supplying defects, in an act passed the last session of Parliament : for continuing an act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, for amending and repairing the roads from Luton in the county of Bedford, to Westwood Gate in the said county, and for repairing the roads from Luton to Saint Alban in the county of Hertford, and making the said acts more effectual.
Published: (1744)

Heads of the additional bill for paving, cleansing, &c. London.
Published: (1672)

The Parish surveyor's appointment and guide for the highways.
Published: (1819)

By the King, a proclamation for suspending the prosecution upon that part of the late act of Parliament for enlarging and repairing of common high-ways, as concerneth the breadth of the tyre of wheels.

By the King, a proclamation for suspending the prosecution upon that part of the late act of Parliament for enlarging and repairing of common high-ways, as concerneth the breadth of the tyre of wheels
Published: (1662)

An act for more effectually repairing the road from James Deeping Stone Bridge to Peter's Gate in Stamford, in the county of Lincoln, and from thence to the south end of the town on Morcott, in the county of Rutland : Royal assent, 22 May 1829.
Published: (1829)

Plan of the road from Hyde Park Corner to Counter's Bridge /
by: Salway, Joseph
Published: (1899)

Of repairing and mending the highways : in five sections; touching, I: Removing obstructions in the highways, and scouring the ditches next adjoining. II. Draining the highways, and repai[r]ing them. III. IV. V. Providing material. Labourers. Carriages. Published for the use and instruction of young surveyors. By William Mather, a late surveyor of the highways in Bedford.
by: Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695
Published: (1696)

An Act for Better Paving, Improving, and Regulating the Streets of the Metropolis and Removing and Preventing Nuisances and Obstructions Therein.
Published: (1835)

New western road, to Bath, Bristol, &c. thro' Windsor.
Published: (1789)

A bill for making more effectual several acts passed for repairing the road leading from the Stones End, in the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the county of Middlesex, to the furthermost part of the northern road, in the parish of Enfield, in the same county, next to the parish of Cheshunt, in the county of Hertford : and for amending the road from the watch-house in Edmonton, to the market-place in Enfield.
Published: (1744)

A bill for repairing the road from the town of Buckingham, in the county of Bucks, to Warmington, in the county of Warwick.
Published: (1744)

The traveller's guide through England and Wales : containing, I. The routes from stage to stage through the direct high roads leading from London ... II. The direct roads across the country, from one city or principal town to another. III. The mansions, castles, and other remarkable objects, on or newar the respective roads. IV. Separate alphabetical tables of all cities, towns ... capital seats ... To which is prefixed, the largest, most accurate, and compleat map of the roads through England and Wales ... /
by: Kitchin, Thomas, 1718-1784
Published: (1783)

By the King : a proclamation for the restraint of excessiue carriages, to the destruction of the high-wayes.
Published: (1629)

An act for continuing an act of the tenth year of His present Majesty for repairing and widening the roads from ... King's Lynn into the parishes of Geyton and Grimstone ... and to the north end of Babingley Lane in the county of Norfolk.
Published: (1791)

An act for better paving, improving, and regulating the streets of the metropolis : and removing and preventing nuisances and obstructions therein, (passed 16th June 1817).
Published: (1839)

A bill for further continuing and making more effectual an act made in the eleventh year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for Repairing the Roads from the Town of Loughborough in the County of Leicester, to the Town of Derby in the County of Derby : and from the Said Town of Derby to the Town of Brassington in the Said County of Derby, and from the Said Town of Derby to Hurdloe-house in the Parish of Hartington in the Said County.
Published: (1744)

The traveller's guide, or, A most exact description of the roads of England : being Mr. Ogilby's actual survey, and mensuration by the wheel, of the great roads from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales, together with the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another : wherein is shewn the distance from place to place, and plain directions given to find the way, by setting down every town, village, river, brook, bridge, common, forest, wood, copse, heath, moor, &c. that occur in passing the roads : and for the better illustration thereof, there are added tables, wherein the names of the places with their distances are set down in a column, in so plain a manner, that a meer stranger may travel all over England without any other guide.
by: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Published: (1699)

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