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Drawings KIDDERMINSTER (Worcestershire): Plan of area

Object number

LDSAL2020.37.56

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 325mm
Width: 415mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

The Inhabitants of Bewdley and Wribbenhall request That in the Bill ordered to be brought in to repair the Roads about Kidderminster The Tolls Collected on the Road Leading to Bewdley may be a separate Fund from the other Tolls Collected on the other Roads Leading from Kidderminster to Bromsgrove and Bridgnorth, As almost all Carriages coming from Wolverhampton Stourbridge and Birmingham Deliver their Loading at the River Severn, And never pass upon any part of the Road Leading from Kiddreminster to Bromsgrove and Bridgnorth. The Inhabitants also desire the Road Leading from Bewdley to Titton Crook in the Road to Worcester may be included in the Bill

Inscription content

Kidderminster to Bewdley Turnpile Roads

References

Reference (free text)

'Presents to the Society', Archaeologia 29 (1842): 440.

Reference (free text)

Pamela J Willetts, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2000), pp. 244-5.

Reference (free text)

E A B Barnard, The Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History (Evesham: The Journal Press, 1931).

Reference (free text)

E A B Barnard, Miscellanea II in the Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History in the Possession on the Society of Antiquaries (1951).

Reference (free text)

E A B Barnard, 'Some Additional Notes Concerning the Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History', Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society new series 8 (1931): 67-73.