Waywarden

Quick meaning: Waywarden is a noun meaning (historical) Someone elected to take care of highways in a parish.

Meaning

(historical) Someone elected to take care of highways in a parish.

Example Sentences

There is nothing I have striven at more than doing my duty, way-warden over Exmoor.

May present Constables and Way-Wardens if they appoint not six days for the repairing of Highways leading to Market Towns, […] shall upon the Justices Presentment be fined.

The vestries are composed of the custos, and two other magistrates; the rector and ten vestrymen; the latter are elected annually by the freeholders. Besides their power of assessing and appropriating taxes, they appoint way-wardens, and allot labourers for the repair of the public highways.

The roads of the parish are for the general use and benefit of everybody who lives in the parish; and all the persons who pay rents for houses in the parish, pay towards keeping up those roads. The waywarden, who is also called surveyor of the highways, wants money once or twice a year from the people of the parish, to pay for keeping up the roads.

Word Forms

• waywardens

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include warden, chapelwarden, wardholder, churchwarden, wardenship, kirkwarden.

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