Bath Road

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Bath Road was the principal road into the town being the Bristol to Oxford route. The road was turnpiked in 1743 and in 1774 the turnpike commissioners employed a local mason, Thomas Webb to build Bath Bridge. Levelling commenced in November 1774 and the bridge completed in April 1776. Previously the road into the town was very steep and dangerous. This established the route as the main entrance into the town from the south. This part of the town was enhanced by the building of the new church and Bath Bridge in the 1770s.


	1838 map [left] and 1890s map [right] Very little building is lining the road in the earlier map, in fact so little it wasn't marked down by the cartographer beyond the bridge.

		NOTICEABLE BUILDINGS: Mission Hall [see Methodist] The Limes Toll House Old Toll House Tetbury Camp

Some of the property:

No 6 The Old Toll House was built c1750-60 but the architectural character appears to be rather later. The road was turnpiked in 1743 but the new bridge built in 1775 must have made the use of this cottage rather difficult and it was superceded in 1821. It is unusual to have two toll houses surviving so close to each other.
English Heritage images of England link

No 20 Toll House

English Heritage images of England link

The Old Coach House dates from around 1870 and was built alongside the large family house next door - both to coincide with the railway line to the Bath Road that never materialised.


	1914 illustration from Ed J Burrows; black & white photo c.1930s and similar view from 2006 Photo © Lynne Cleaver


	Two views from Black Horse Hill 2006 Photos © Lynne Cleaver




	The packhorse bridge; the civic society sign marking the original route into the town before Bath Bridge was built in 1774; and different views of the original road. Photos © Lynne Cleaver 2006










	POOR RATES April 1860

OCCUPIER	OWNER	PROPERTY
SMITH, DANIEL	FILKIN, DR	Land
COLLETT, CHARLES	HOLFORD, R S	Cottage
RUSSELL, WILLIAM JNR	HOLFORD, R S	Cottage
SPARROW, AARON	HOLFORD, R S	Cottage
WHITE, HENRY	HOLFORD, R S	Cottage

SOURCES & RESOURCES:

VCH Gloucestershire Vol 11 available online
Lee, Alfred T; History of the town & parish of Tetbury; 1857

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES
TETBURY
Catalogue Ref. D2742/4 - date: 1886
Conveyance of newly erected messuage in Chipping Lane, Tetbury and tenement/room adjoining, used as chapel, and of a cottage, garden and premises in tithing of Charlton, parish of Tetbury, near the Bath Bridge on the turnpike road (the garden being used as a cemetery)

TETBURY
Deeds, mainly leases by Feoffees of borough properties [detailed abuttals are stated in most of the deeds]. -
Catalogue Ref. D 566/T/2/23 - date: 1837, 1859
Cottage and land near the Bath Bridge
Ref. D 566/T/2/25 - date: 1859
Cottage near the Bath Bridge.

Tetbury Poor Rates 1860

P328a/OV1/32


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