the St Clements mileway was turnpiked under the Oxford Improvement Act of 1771 and a toll house was built at The Plain with two gates across the roads from Headington and Cowley, for the maintenance of the approaches to Magdalen Bridge; a new road to Henley (later the Iffley Road) was built direct from Magdalen Bridge; the trust was badly affected by the coming of the railway and in 1845 one of the mortgagees brought an action of ejectment against the trustees and entered into possession of the toll house and gates; in 1865 the Oxford Local Board took over the trust which was abolished in 1868 [source: Victoria County History of Oxfordshire volume IV p 285]
cataloguing note: some papers are catalogued with Paving Commissioners records [OCA2/1]