Wiveliscombe Roads Act 1825
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1825 c. xciii |
ANNO
SEXTO
REGIS.
Cap.
xciii.
An
Act for more effectually repairing several Roads
leading from and through the
Town
of
Wivelis-
combe
in
the County
of
Somerset,
and the Roads
adjoining thereto, in
the
Counties of
Somerset
and
Devon,
and for making a
new
Line
of
Road to
communicate therewith.
[2&h
May
1825.l
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Twenty-sixth Year of the
Keign
of
His
late Majesty King
George
the Third, intituled
An
Act
for
amending
and
widening several Roads leading
from
266.3.c.135.
and through the
Town
of
Wiveliscombe in
the
County
of
Somerset,
and
other Roads adjaining
or
near therefa,
whereby
it
was amongst other things
enacted, that in
making
the Road from
Pitford
Hill to the Turnpike
Road leading
hm
licartrozu
to
Dunstet-,
no
Watercourse should
be
diverted
or
stopped
to
the
Prejudice
of
the Occupier
or
Occupiers for the
Time being
of
Comb
Sydenhani
Barton, or the Lands thereto adjoining and
belonging, but
that,
after
making and completing the said Road, all and
every the Occupier
and
Occupiers
of
the said Barton and Lands should
at
all Tinies have and enjoy the same Privilege and full
Benefit
of
all
such
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2,-
Waters
2
294
Waters and Watercourses, for watering, manuring, and improving lis and
their Lands, in manner as they had usually then hitherto enjoyed the
same
:
And whereas another Act was passed in the Forty-sixth Year
of
the same
4G
G.3.c.52.
Reign, intituled
An
Act
for
continuing
the
Term and altering
the
Powers
of
an
Act
passed
in
the
Twenty-sixth Tear
of
His
present Majesty,
for
antending
and widening Jevernl
Roads
leading
from
and through
the
Town
f
Whelk-
combe
in
thc
County
of
Somerset,
and other Roads therein meniioned, and
for
amending and widening certain other Roads ridjoining thertto
:
And
whereas
a
considerable Sum
of
Money has been borrowed and is now
due and
owing
on the Credit
of
the said Acts, and the said Roads are
much out
of
Repair, and cannot be sufficiently amended, widened, altered,
improved, and kept in repair, nor can the Money
so
borrowed,
with
the
Interest thereon, be discharged, unless further Provisions are made for
those Purposes
:
And whereas the Roads hm the Town Hall of
TVivc-
liscombe
to
Kadingion Mill,
and from thence by
Ganilyn Cross
in the Parish
of
Skilgate
to and through the Village
of
Bury,
and to the
Minehead
and
Dulverton
Turnpike Road at or near
Hele Bridge
in the Parish
of
Kingsbrompton
in the County
of
Somerset,
and from the Town
of
Dul-
verton
aforesaid to the
Southmolton
and
Tiverton
Turnpike Road
at
or near
Bish
Mills
in the Parish of
Bishops Nyntpton,
and from
Radington
Mill
aforesaid to
h%y
Farm
in the Parish
of
Bampton
in the County
of
Devon,
being Parts of the Roads comprised in the
said
Acts, are hilly and circui-
tous, and such Hills might be avoided
if
in
lieu thereof
a
new Line
of
Road were made and maintained from the Town
Hall
of
Wiveliscombe
aforesaid
by
Shillingford,
and through the Town
of
Bampton
to
the
South-
niolton
and
Tiverton
Turnpike Road at
or
near
Bish
Mills
aforesaid
:
And
whcreas an Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present
3G.
4.c.
1%
Majesty, intituled
An
Act
to
nniend
the
general Laws now in being
for
regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part
of
Great Britain
culledEngland
:
And
whereas another Act was passed in the Fourth Year
of
the Reign of 13s
4
G.
4.
c.
95.
present Majesty, intituled
An
Act
to
explain and anwid
an
Act
passed in
the
Third Tear
of
the
Reign
of
His
present Majesty,
to
amend
the
general
Laws
now in being
for
rtgulating Turnpike
Roads
in
that Part
of
Great
Britain
called
England
:
And whereas another Act
was
passed
in
the Fifth
5
G.
4,
c.
69.
Year
of'
the Reign
of
His
said present Majesty, intituled
An
Act
to
enable
Justices
4
the Pence
for
Ridings, Divisions,
or
Sokes,
to
mi
as Trustees
for
repairing and maintaining Turnpike Roads
:
And whereas
it
would be con-
venient that the said Two first-recited Acts should be repealed, and that
Provision should be made for repairing, maintaining, and improving the
several Roads herein-after described in manner herein-after mentioned
:
May
it therefore please Your Majesty that
it
may be enacted
;
and be it
enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and
Consent
of
the Lords Spiritual. and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre-
Heciled
Acts
sent Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from
of
26
and after the passing
of
this
Act,
the said recited Acts
of
the Twenty-
4G
G.
'.
re-
sixth and Forty-sixth Years
of
the Reign of His said late Majesty King
pealed.
George
the Third shall be and the
same
are hereby declared to be re-
pealed, and this Act shall from thenceforth commence
and
take Effect,
and be put in execution for and during the Term herein-after mentioned,
for the Purpose of amending, altering, turning, widening, improving, and
keeping in repair the several Roads herein-after mentioned
;
(that is
to
the
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