Tramroad

About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen.

It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.

Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.

The company arranged for access to a Blackpool terminus […] over a street tramway to be constructed by, and leased for 21 years from, the Corporation. The distance between termini was about eight miles, of which 6 miles 22 ch. was to be tramroad on private right-of-way.