For the next thirty years the Crown does not seem to have laid out any money upon the Forest roads, although their condition was so bad that it was urged as a reason for building churches and schools in the Forest, those of the surrounding parishes not being readily accessible to the inhabitants. But in 1828 and the two following
years the Roads Trustees borrowed £5,000, with which they made the road
| Leading from Park End to Bream | 1½ miles. |
| „ Nail Bridge to Little Dean | 3 „ |
| „ the White Oak to Lydbrook | 1 „ |
besides widening and improving the road through Lydbrook for Bishopswood. They likewise formed the road
| Leading from Berry Hill to Shortstanding | 1 mile. |
| „ Christ Church to Symmonds Rock | 2 „ |
| „ White Oak to Eastbatch Lane End | ½ „ |
when other parts of the roads were also improved.
In 1841 the large sum of £5,000 was expended by the Commissioners in constructing roads
| From Park End to Blakeney | 5 miles. |
| „ Nail Bridge to Mitcheldean | 2 „ |
| „ Drybrook to the Bailey Lane End | 1½ „ |
| „ Bishop’s Wood to Nail Bridge | 3½ „ |
| „ Long Stone, Berry Hill, and Fetch Pit | 2 „ |
To which may be added a short length of road made from the Hawthorns to the top of the Stenders, by a grant from the Operatives’ Relief Fund. [197]
The total length of the roads comprised within the present limits of the Forest is 41 miles 3 furlongs 31 yards. The tolls are not let, but collected in the name of the Commissioners, and yielded, in 1856, as follows, at their respective gates:—