Transport And Infrastructure

Question 1

transportation acts

Answer 1

• turnpike act 1663, creation of brad new toll roads opened by merchants and businessmen
  th toll helped to pay for upkeep of the roads
  invaluable in linking major market towns

Question 2

benefits to improved transport

Answer 2

• easier to trade

- allowed national markets

Question 3

water transport

Answer 3

• crucial in the developments of markets
• at the banning of 1600s most rivers were not navigable for the entire length
• at the end of the century, the Severn, Ouse and Thames were used to transport goods

Question 4

when did the road system develop

Answer 4

did not develop considerably till the second half of the 17th century