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Roads

The nature and location of resources

Archival/written

Page from the County Quarter Sessions Minute Book for 1701.
Page from the County Quarter Sessions Minute Book for 1701.

Official

Nottingham Borough Archives [Nottinghamshire Archives] A selection from 1155 to 1900 published as Record of the Borough of Nottingham, vols 1-9]. See especially Mickletorn Jury presentments for blocked roads and other nuisances.

Quarter Sessions and parochial records include considerable amount of information about maintenance of highways from the 1600s until the 1880s. After this local authorities became  responsible for highways.

Personal

Notts Living History Archive project publications.

Administrative/business/economic

Records of turnpike trusts {Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham University Manuscripts Department].

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