Pendleton Roads (Lancashire) Act 1826

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1826 c. cxxxviii
Year1826
ANNO SEPTIMO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
cxxxviii.
An Act for more effectually repairing and improving
several Roads leading to and from the Town of
Salford,
through Pendleton and other Places
therein mentioned, in the County Palatine of
Lancaster, and several other Roads therein men-
tioned
;
and for making and maintaining certain
Diversions or new Lines of Road to communicate
therewith. [2.6th May 1826.]
HERE AS an Act was passed in the Thirty-third Year of
the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third,
intituled An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, 33G.3.C.181.
and
improving
certain Roads leading to and from the Towns
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Salford,
Warrington, Bolton, and Wigan, and to certain Places called the
Broad Oak in Worsley and Duxbury Stocks, and also the Road from
a Place
called
South Sea in Pendlebury to Agecroft Bridge, and from
thence through Hilton Lane to Dawson-lane-end, and also from
Agecroft Bridge
over
Ker.sal Moor to Singleton Brook, all in the
County
Palatine of 'Lancaster; whereby the said Roads were divided into
several Districts
.':;
And whereas the .Trustees, acting under or by virtue
p.f
.the1
said recited Act, so far as relates to the several Districts or
Divisions of the said Roads therein and herein-after mentioned, (that
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is to say,) the District or Division of the said Roads which comprises
the Road extending from the Division of the Townships of
Salford
and Pendleton in the, said County Palatine of
Lancaster,
to the Divi-
sion of the Townships of
Pendlebury
and Swinton; the District or
Division of the said Roads which comprises the Road extending from
the said Division of the Townships of Pendlebury and Swinton to
Knocket Wall Brook, being the Division between the Townships of
Worsley and Little Hulton, and which also comprises the Road ex-
tending from the Guide Post in Swinton to a Place called the Broad
Oak in
Worsley
; the District or Division of the said Roads which
comprises the Road extending from the Division of the Townships of
Pendleton and Pendlebury, near the House called or known
by"
the
Sign of the Pack Horse at Jrlam's o'th'Height, on the Bolton Road
from Manchester to a Place called the Four Stumps on Kersley Moor ;
the District or Division of the said Roads which comprises the Road
extending from the House mentioned in the said Act to be the House
of Thomas Worrall, being the Sign of the Woolsack in
^Pendleton
aforesaid, to the Division of the Townships of Lower Jrlam and
Cadishead; and the District or Division of the said Road which
comprises the Road extending from South Sea in Pendlebury aforesaid
to Agecrqft Bridge, and from thence through Hilton Lane to the
Bury Road leading from Manchester at
Sheep/oof-lane-end,
and which
also comprises the Road extending from Agecrqft Brook over Kersal
Moor to Singleton Brook, have proceeded to put the same Act into
Execution ; and a considerable Progress hath been made in repairing,
widening, and improving the same several Districts or Divisions of
the said Roads, by the said Act directed to be repaired, widened, and
improved: And whereas the Trustees appointed in and by virtue of
the said Act fqr the said several hereinbefore mentioned Districts or
Divisions of the said Roads, have borrowed several large Sums of
Money on the Credit of the several Tolls thereby authorized to be
taken on the said several Districts or Divisions of the said Roads;
which Sums of Money, or the greatest Part
thereof,
still remain due
arid owing on the Credit of the said Tolls, and cannot be paid off,
nor can the said several Districts or Divisions of the said Roads be
effectually amended, widened, improved, and kept in repair, unless the
Term granted and continued by the said Act, so far as the same
relates to the said several Districts or Divisions of the said Roads, be
further continued; and it would be more convenient if the said Act,
so far as the same relates to the said several Districts or Divisions of
the sajd Roads, was repealed, and further, better, and more effectual
Powers, apd .Provisions, granted instead
thereof:
And whereas the
making and. rjpiah}tah$ing the following Diversions or deviated Lines
of Road, from arid out of the said Division or District of the said
$pa^j,s,|
extending froni jh'e House mentioned; in. the said Act to be
the I^bu^e of Xhoims. Worrall, being the Sign of the Woolsack in
Pendjeton,
aforesajdj to the Division of the
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Townships of Lower
Trtam arid
Cadishead,
would, tend greatly to improve the same, and
would be. productive of great public Utility;. (that is to, say), a Di-
version. o,r deviated Xane of the sarne Road, commencing at or near a
certain
Plaq&
called
FaulJmer
Bridge, and ending at
ox-
near a certain
other Piace calfed. the"J^ew Hall, both .in the Township, of Barton-
upon-Irwett,; a certain other Diversion or deviated Line of the same
1 Road,

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