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Roads

The nature and location of resources

Part of poster showing tolls payable at Farnsfield Bar, 1814.
Part of poster showing tolls payable at Farnsfield Bar, 1814.

Printed

Primary

  • 18th and early 19th century roadbooks by Cary and Patterson.
  • Published accounts of travels around England sometime includes references to the county. The most notable are by Celia Fiennes (1680s), Daniel Defoe  (1720s)
  • Newspapers [Nottinghamshire Archives etc -see M. Brook, Bibliography of British Newspapers: Nottinghamshire]
  • Government reports into roads [NUL; British Library]

Secondary

  • Notts. Bibliography entries: Transport & Communications. See especially A Cossons: The Turnpike Roads of Nottinghamshire (2nd ed, 1994)
  • Notts Living History Archive project publications
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