A report on Wadesmill
Hamlet in Hertfordshire, England, located on the north side of the River Rib with an estimated population of 264.
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Thundridge
3 linksVillage and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England.
Village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district, in the county of Hertfordshire, England.
Nearby villages include Wadesmill and Tonwell, and the hamlets of Cold Christmas and High Cross.
A10 road (England)
2 linksMajor road in England.
Major road in England.
North of Ware, a further by-pass scheme was opened in late 2004, taking the A10 around the Hertfordshire villages of Wadesmill, Thundridge, High Cross, and Collier's End.
Ware, Hertfordshire
2 linksTown in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford.
Town in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford.
England's first turnpike (toll) road was established at Wadesmill, two miles north of Ware, in 1633 in an attempt to control the malting traffic into and from Ware.
River Rib
1 linksThe River Rib originates near the East Hertfordshire village of Therfield and runs parallel with the A10 through Chipping, Wyddial, Buntingford, Westmill, Braughing, Puckeridge and Standon, before dividing the villages of Thundridge and Wadesmill and continuing until it reaches its confluence with the River Lea near Hertford.
Thomas Clarkson
0 linksEnglish abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
He broke his journey at Wadesmill, near Ware, Hertfordshire.
Turnpike trust
0 linksTurnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.
It then passed an act that gave the local justices of the peace powers to erect toll-gates on a section of the road, between Wadesmill, Hertfordshire; Caxton, Cambridgeshire; and Stilton, Huntingdonshire for 11 years, the revenues so raised to be used for the maintenance of the road in their jurisdictions.