| Description | The Highways Act of 1862 enabled Justices of the Peace to combine rural parishes into Highway Boards who took over the responsibility for highways from the parish. In 1894 The Local Government Act passed all the powers, duties and liabilities of existing highway boards, highway authorities or surveyors to the newly created rural district councils. Rural district councils continued to exercise these powers until 1930, when the Local Government Act 1929 transferred responsibility for rural highways to county councils. |