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A photo of an application for a road rate from October 1772

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Application for a road rate (Q/SR/1772D)

The Highways Act 1555 made parishes responsible for maintaining the roads in their area.  As Kingsholm was not a parish at this time, when a group of inhabitants met to try and repair the local roads – which they presumably thought were in poor repair and detrimental to the area – they had to seek permission from the county’s Quarter Sessions to raise money to do so.  This application to the Quarter Sessions comes from October 1772 and asks for permission to levy a rate of 3d in the pound for repairing the highways on inhabitants and landowners within the hamlet. 

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