Description

Description:

The Highway Act 1835 placed highways under the direction of parish surveyors, and allowed them to pay for the costs involved by rates levied on the occupiers of land. The surveyor's duty was to keep the highways in repair, and if a highway was out of repair, the surveyor may be summoned before the courts and ordered to complete the repairs within a limited time.

The council has the power, in certain circumstances, to stop up areas of highway by making a legal order known as a 'stopping up order'. The term 'stopping up' means that, once such an order is made, the area will cease to be highway and the public right of access to the area is permanently removed.

The records in this collection relate to the stopping up of streets in Hull.