Pontage

Pontage

Pontage was a medieval toll levied for the building or repair of bridges.

Pontage was similar in nature to murage (a toll for the building of town walls) and pavage (a toll for paving streets and market places, or — more rarely — roads between towns).

Pontage was granted by the king by letters patent for a limited term, sufficient to enable the requisite public works to be done. However, sometimes the works were not completed (or at least not paid for) by the end of the term, so that a renewal had to be obtained. Grants were made from 1228 until the 1440s, the earliest being for bridges at Ferrybridge, Yorkshire and Staines, an important crossing of the river Thames. In all about 370 grants were made.

The term pontage is also applied to lands in Cambridgeshire, which were liable to repair the bridge of Cambridge as an incident of tenure.

References

*A. Cooper, "Bridges, Law and Power in medieval England 700-1400" (Boydell, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2006), 127-48.
*P. W. King, 'Medieval Turnpikes' "Journal of Railway and Canal Historical Society" 35(10) (Dec. 2007), 740-6.


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