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Road Capture

In: Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History

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  • Eric L. Jones

    (La Trobe University)

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The closure or diversion of public roads and particularly footpaths was extremely common, yet is almost never mentioned in the secondary literature. It reveals the historical importance to the landed gentry of amenity values, which extended to keeping traffic out of sight. Privatisation is ancient and, although most frequent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, continues to this day with respect to paths. The usual motive was privacy, a consumption good which accordingly demonstrates—contrary to assumptions in economics—that moving public assets into private hands does not mean they will be more efficiently employed. Documentary evidence, though often abundant, is however local or sometimes absent and has to be supplemented or replaced by ground observation.

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  • Eric L. Jones, 2018. "Road Capture," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History, chapter 0, pages 57-70, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-74869-6_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74869-6_5
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