The Turnpike Trusts of the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Innovation and Diffusion |
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ability to adopt Act of Parliament agricultural benefits Bristol Cambridge canal charges communal property concentrate cost counterpetitions Deane and Cole Devizes diffusion curve diffusion pattern diffusion process Droitwich Dyos economic development Economic Growth Economic History economic structure eighteenth century England and Wales expansion factor Figure Firstly Gloucester Gloucester Road Hartwell Hereford Hertfordshire House of Lords identified Industrial Revolution innovation and diffusion internal trade John Patten Lagging Sector Leeds Leominster London Manchester mileage miles of road motive for adoption neighbourhood effect NETWORK IN 1770 Oxford parish repair system parish system Parliamentary petitions population pound lock prerequisite rate of adoption renewal Acts right of passage road repair road surfaces road users route Schumpeter Secondly spatial spread Staffordshire toll towns transport and economic transport improvements transport network trust Acts turnpike bills turnpike boom TURNPIKE ROAD NETWORK turnpike road system turnpike schemes turnpike system turnpike trust UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD waggons Webb Worcester