 The current road further south was designed as a toll road by Thomas Telford to improve communications east of Glossop, which was expanding as an industrial town.It was originally called the Sheffield to Glossop Turnpike and run by a turnpike trust, the Sheffield and Glossop Trust.An act of parliament to build the road was passed in 1818, and construction was financed by the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Devonshire.