ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
Part 2 : 1800 - 1849
Brent Bridge and Plymouth Road Act 1800
(39 & 40 Geo. 3 Ch. vi)
An Act for continuing for the Term of Twenty-one Years, and
from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and for
altering and enlarging the Powers of Two Acts, one made in the Thirty-first
Year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the other
in the Seventeenth Year of the reign of his present Majesty, for repairing
the High Road leading from Brent Bridge, in the county of Devon, to Gasking
Gate, in or near the Borough of Plymouth, in the said County. Royal
Assent: 25th March 1800.
Female Orphan Asylum Act 1800 (39 & 40
Geo. 3 Ch. lx)
[Lairy Embankment (Plymouth)] Act 1802 (42
Geo. 3 Ch. 32)
An Act to enable his Majesty to grant certain Parcels of Land, situate
between Great Prince Rock and the Village of Crab Tree, called Tothill Bay, and Lipson
Bay, near to the Borough of Plymouth in the County of Devon, to certain Persons therein
named for the Purpose of embanking and preserving the same from the Sea. Royal
Assent: 24th March 1802. [AC].
Saltash Roads Act 1802 (42 Geo. 3 Ch.
xvii)
Devon Roads 1802 (42 Geo. 3 Ch. lxxv)
Efford Quay and Plymouth Road Act 1803 (43
Geo. 3 Ch. xv)
Roads from Modbury through Plymouth Act 1803
(43 Geo. 3 Ch. xxvii)
An Act for continuing the Term, and altering and enlarging
the Powers of Two Acts, passed in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of His
late Majesty, and The Twenty-first Year of the Reign of His present Majesty,
for repairing and widening the Road from Modbury through the Town of
Plympton, to the North End of Lincotta Lane, in the County of Devon.
Royal Assent: 7th April 1803.
Dart Teign and Plym Fisheries Act 1803 (43
Geo. 3 Ch. lxi)
Roads to and from Exeter Act 1803 (43 Geo.
3 Ch. cxxii)
Tavistock Canal Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 Ch.
cxxx)
Roads from Tavistock to Plymouth and from Manadon
Gate Act 1804 (44 Geo. 3 Ch. xvi)
An Act for the better amending and repairing of the Roads leading from the
Lower Market House in Tavistock, to Old Town Gate, in the Borough of Plymouth, and from
Manadon Gate to the Old Pound near Plymouth Dock, in the County of Devon. Royal
Assent 3rd May 1804. [PC]
Tavistock and New Bridge Roads Act 1804
(44 Geo. 3 Ch. lxxvi)
Plymouth and Stonehouse Bridge Roads Act 1805
(45 Geo. 3 Ch. xxxiv)
An Act for enabling His Majesty to grant a certain
Creek, called Chelson Bay, otherwise Shilston Bay, in or near the Parish of Plympton Saint
Mary, in the County of Devon; and for vesting the same, for a valuable Consideration in
the Right Honourable John Lord Boringdon, and His Heirs 1805 (Public Act 45
Geo. 3 Ch. 116). Royal Assent 10th July 1805. [AC]
Roads from Callington Act 1806 (46 Geo. 3
Ch. xv)
A Bill To enable His
Majesty to establish a Police at Plymouth Dock, in the County of Devon 1808
This Bill was never enacted.
Devon County Gaol Act 1810 (50 Geo. 3 Ch.
lxxxv)
Town of Plymouth Improvement Act 1811 (51
Geo. 3 Ch. cii)
Sutton Pool Harbour (Plymouth) Act 1811
(51 Geo. 3 Ch. cxcvi)
(This Act authorised the formation of the Sutton Pool Company, which for
£6,000 acquired a 99-year lease on Sutton Pool.) Royal Assent 26 June 1811.
Roborough Down and Dartmoor Road Act 1812
(52 Geo. 3 Ch. iv)
An Act for repairing the Road from Roborough Down to the
Tavistock Road near Dart Moor Prison, and to Two Bridges, in the County of
Devon. Royal Assent: 28th February 1812.
Cattewater Harbour Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3 Ch.
l)
An Act for the improvement of certain parts of the harbour of Catwater within the
Manor of Plympton in the County of Devon; and for more effectually providing for the
security of the communication from Pomphlet Point across the contiguous water of Lary
within the said Manor.
Roads from Tavistock to Plymouth and from Manadon
Gate Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3 Ch. xxvi)
An Act for altering and enlarging the Term and Powers of an
Act, of the Forty-fourth Year of His present Majesty, for repairing the
Roads leading from Tavistock to Old Town gate, in the Borough of Plymouth,
and from Manadon Gate to the old pound near Plymouth Dock, in the County of
Devon. Royal Assent: 1st April 1813.
Plymouth Workhouse Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3 Ch.
lxxiii)
West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company Act
1813 (54 Geo. 3 Ch. x)
Roads from Brent Bridge to Plymouth Act 1814
(54 Geo. 3 Ch. lii)
An Act for altering and enlarging the Term and Powers of
Three Acts, made for repairing the High Road leading from Brent Bridge, in
the County of Devon, to Gasking Gate, in or near the Borough of Plymouth, in
the said County of Devon. Royal Assent: 18th May 1814.
Plymouth and
Stoke Damarel Poor Relief and Improvement Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3 Ch. clxxii)
An Act to Repeal an Act, passed in the Twenty-first year of His present Majesty for
better maintaining and regulating the Poor within the Town of Plymouth-Dock and Parish of
Stoke-Damarel in the County of Devon, and for other purposes; and granting further Powers
in lieu thereof; for Lighting, Watching, and otherwise improving the said Town and Parish,
and regulating Porters and Watermen therein. Royal Assent 20th June 1814.
Roads to and from Exeter Act 1815 (Ch.
xii)
Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Act 1819 (59
Geo. 3 Ch. cxv)
An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from Crabtree in the Parish
of Egg Buckland in the county of Devon to communicate with the Prison of War on the Forest
of Dartmoor in the Parish of Lydford in the said county. Royal Assent 2nd July 1819.
Plymouth and Exeter Road Act 1820 (1 Geo.
4 Ch. xxi)
An Act to improve certain Parts of the Line of Road between the Borough of
Plymouth and the City of Exeter, through Ashburton and Chudleigh, in the County of Devon.
Royal Assent: 22nd June 1820.
Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway (Crabtree and Sutton
Pool Branch) Act 1820 (1 Geo. 4 Ch. liv)
An Act for making a Branch Railway or Tramroad from a place called Crabtree, in the
Parish of Egg Buckland, to certain Lime Works at a place called Catdown, and from thence
to Sutton Pool, in the Parish of Charles, all in the County of Devon, to communicate with
the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway at Crabtree aforesaid. Royal Assent 8th July 1820.
Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Act 1821 (1
& 2 Geo. 4 Ch. cxxv)
An Act to authorise the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Company to vary the line of a
certain part of the said Railway; and to amend the Acts passed for making the said
Railway. Royal Assent 2nd July 1821. [PC]
Plymouth and Stonehouse Bridge Roads Act 1821
(1 & 2Geo. 4 Ch. li)
Plymouth, Stonehouse Bridge and Plymouth Dock Roads
Act 1822 (Ch. li)
An Act to alter and enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act of
His late Majesty, for the making, repairing, lighting, watching and
watering certain roads leading from the Borough of Plymouth to Stonehouse Bridge and
Plymouth Dock in the County of Devon; and for regulating the Stands and Fares of Hackney
Coaches
and Carts using the same. Royal Assent 15th May 1822.
Plymouth Gas Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4 Ch. v)
An Act for lighting with gas the town and borough of Plymouth and places adjacent,
in the county of Devon. Royal Assent 24th March 1823.
Saltash Roads Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4 Ch. vi)
An Act for more effectually amending, improving, and keeping
in repair, several Roads in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, leading to
the Borough of Saltash in the County of Cornwall. Royal Assent:
24th March 1823.
Lary [or Lairy] Bridge, Devon Act 1823 (4
Geo. 4 Ch. x)
Roads from Modbury through Plymouth Act 1823
(4 Geo. 4 Ch. cix)
An Act for more effectually making and maintaining the Road from Modbury,
through the Town of Plympton, to the North End of Lincotta Lane, and from Modbury to within
Four hundred
Yards of the Bridge over the Lary and also a Road from Addistone Hill, in the
Parish of Holbeton, to the Totnes Road at Lady Down, in the Parish of Ugborough
in the County of Devon. Royal Assent: 17th June 1823.
Victualling Establishment, Plymouth, Act 1824
(5 Geo. 4 Ch. 49)
An Act for enabling the Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty's Navy to
purchase certain Premises, for completing a Victualling Establishment at Cremill Point
near Plymouth in the County of Devon, and for supplying the said Establishment with Water.
Royal Assent 3rd June 1824. [AC]
Asylum for Female Orphans Act 1824 (Ch. v)
Plymouth Improvement Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4
Ch. xxii)
An Act for better paving, lighting, cleansing,
watching, and improving the town and borough of Plymouth, in the county of
Devon, and for regulating the police thereof, and for removing and
preventing nuisances and annoyances therein. Royal Assent 12th April
1824.
Lairy [or Lary] Embankment Act 1824 ( 5
Geo. 4 Ch. xxvi)
An Act for further extending the powers of the Company of
Proprietors for embanking part of the Lairy, near Plymouth. Royal
Assent 12th April 1824.
Lary Bridge Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4 Ch. cxiii)
An Act for altering and amending an Act of the last session of Parliament for
erecting a bridge over the water of Lary in the County of Devon.
Devon Roads Act 1826 (Ch. xcii)
Callington Roads Act 1827 (Ch. ci)
Stonehouse Mill Pool Bridge Act 1830 (11
Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4 Ch. lxviii)
Saltash Floating Bridge Act 1832 (2 &
3 Will. 4 Ch. vii)
Sutton Pool Harbour Act 1832 (2 & 3
Will. 4 Ch. ix)
An Act to continue the Term and to alter and amend the Powers of an Act
passed in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for the
Improvement of the Harbour of Sutton Pool in the Port of Plymouth in the County of Devon.
Royal Assent 24th March 1832. [AC]
Saltash Roads Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4
Ch. v)
An Act for more effectually repairing and improving several
Roads in the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, leading to the Borough of
Saltash in the County of Cornwall, and for making a new Branch and
Deviations of Roads to communicate therewith. Royal Assent: 29th
March 1833.
West of England Fire and Life Assurance Company Act
1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4 Ch. xxxvii)
Devonport Market Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will.
4 Ch. xv)
An Act to enlarge & regulate the Market now held in the Town of
Devonport in the County of Devon, and to establish a Market within the said Town for Corn,
Grain and other Articles, and to regulate the Amount of Tolls to be paid within the said
Markets. Royal Assent 12th June 1835.
Ugborough and Modbury Road Act 1836 (Ch.
xlviii)
Plymouth and Devonport Court of Requests Act 1837
(7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. Ch lxii)
Mill Bay Pier Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. Ch
cxi)
An Act for erecting and maintaining a pier and other works, in Mill Bay in the Port
of Plymouth in the County of Devon.
Plymouth and Exeter Road Act 1841 (4 &
5 Vict. Ch. xxxi)
Brent Bridge and Plymouth (Gasking Street) Road Act
1841 (4 & 5 Vict. Ch. xxxii)
Plymouth and Stonehouse [Bridge] Roads and
Transport Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. Ch. lxi)
An Act for regulating Hackney Coaches and other Carriages, Boats, and
Wherries within the several Parishes of Saint Andrew and Charles in the Borough of
Plymouth, the Parish of East Stonehouse and the Parish of Stoke Damerel in the Borough of
Devonport, and for amending Two several Acts for repairing certain Roads leading from the
Borough of Plymouth aforesaid to Stonehouse Bridge and Plymouth Dock, all in the County of
Devon. Royal Assent 27th June 1843. [AC]
South Devon Railway Act 1844 (7 & 8
Vict. Ch. lxviii)
An Act for making a Railway from Exeter to Plymouth, to be called “The South
Devon Railway”. Royal Assent 4th July 1844.
Devonport Gas and Coke Company Act 1845 (8
& 9 Vict. Ch. lxiv)
Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas Act 1845 (8
& 9 Vict. Ch. lxv)
An Act for better supplying with Gas the Town and Neighbourhood of Plymouth.
Royal Assent 30th June 1845. [AC]
Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery Company
Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. Ch. xxvii)
An Act for establishing a general cemetery for the interment
of the dead in the neighbourhood of the towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and
Stonehouse, in the county of Devon. Royal Assent 18th June 1846.
Cornwall Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10
Vict. Ch. cccxxxv)
Plymouth Great Western Dock Act 1846 (9
& 10 Vict. Ch. ccclxxxiii)
Royal Assent 18th August 1846.
South Devon Railway (Amendment and Branches) Act
1846 (9 & 10 Vict. Ch. ccccii)
Plymouth and Tavistock Turnpike [Roads] Act 1847
(10 & 11 Vict. Ch. xlvii)
Cornwall Railway Amendment and Deviation Act 1847
(10 & 11 Vict. Ch. lxxii)
South Devon Railway (Extensions and Amendment) Act
1847 (10 & 11 Vict. Ch. ccxlii)
An Act to enable the South Devon Railway Company to extend the Line of the South
Devon Railway to Torquay and to Brixham....
Sutton Harbour [Plymouth Port] Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. Ch. ccxcvii)
An Act for improving and regulating the harbour of Sutton Pool within the Port of
Plymouth in the County of Devon. (This Act set up the Sutton Harbour Improvement
Company).
Plymouth Great Western Dock (Amendment) Act 1848
(11 & 12 Vict. Ch. xcv)
London & South Western Railway (Extension of
Powers) Act 1849 (Ch. xxxiii)
Principal Sources:
Chronological Table of
Local Acts, Office of Public Sector Information (formerly Her
Majesty's Stationery Office) - see
www.opsi.gov.uk.
Chronological Table of
Private and Personal Acts,
Office of Public Sector Information (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery
Office) - see www.opsi.gov.uk.
The Prelims and date of
Royal Assent are reproduced from the actual Acts of Parliament, where
the author has access to them.
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