sentences:  It was the main road from Nottingham to London.The turnpike went from Nottingham via Melton and Oakham to Kettering (to join today's A6), and then on to London, run by the Nottingham, Melton and Kettering Turnpike Trust from 1758.The turnpike trusts were abolished in 1880, the year that the railway line to Melton opened.