The English highway acts provide that In every parish forming part of a highway district there shall an-nuaily be elected one or more waywardens. The waywardens so elected, and the justices for the county residing within the district, form the highway board for the district. Each waywarden also represents his parish in regard to the levying of the highway rates, and in questions arising concerning the liability of his parish to repairs, etc. Sweet
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
