Turnpike road from Stratford to Long Compton Hill
A toll road which ran from Stratford to Long Compton Hill. It was built during the Post Medieval period and continued in use into the Imperial period.
1 A turnpike road constructed between 1729-50. The first Act was 1729.
2 The Act for repairing the Road leading from a Gate called Shipston Toll Gate, at Bridge Town, in the Parish of Old Stratford, in the County of Warwick, through Alderminster and Shipston upon Stower to the top of Long Compton Hill in the said County was indeed discussed in 1729 and the Act was printed in 1730. There were subsequent Acts in 1818 and 1825. The latter was An Act for repairing the road from Old Stratford to Long Compton Hill and for making a new road from the Village of Long Compton into the Turnpike Road leading from Long Compton to Woodstock joining at Chapel House.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
The Turnpike ran along the route of the present A3400 from the first tollgate about a mile south of Clopton Bridge, Stratford to the top of Long Compton Hill, by Over Norton. In 1827 a new stretch was opened from Long Compton skirting to the east of long Compton Hill and avoiding the long steep climb, to a point just north of the former Chapel House coaching Inn.
(The Milestone Society has just completed a Heritage Lottery funded project to restore six surviving nationally unique cast iron mileposts along this former Turnpike. More information and photographs are available)
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