- Toll house
A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a
toll road . Many tollhouses were built byturnpike trust s in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those built in the early 1800s often had a distinctive bay front to give the pikeman a clear view of the road and to provide a display area for the tollboard. In 1840, according to the Turnpike Returns in Parliamentry Papers, there were over 5000 tollhouses operating in England. These were sold off in the 1880s when the turnpikes were closed. Many were demolished but several hundred have survived as domestic houses, with distinctive features of the old tollhouse still visible.Notes
References
Tollhouses in England:
* Haynes, R. & Slocombe, I. (2004) Wiltshire Toll Houses, publ. Hobnob Press, Salisbury. (ISBN 0 946418-21-7)
* Kanefsky, J. (1976) Devon Tollhouses, Exeter Ind Arch. Group, University of Exeter (ISBN 0 9501778)
* Searle, M. (1930), Turnpikes and Toll-bars, publ. Hutchinson
* Taylor, P. (2001) The Toll-houses of Cornwall, publ. The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies. (ISBN 0 902660-29-2)External links
* [http://www.turnpikes.org.uk/ Turnpikes.org.uk] has details and access to photographs of surviving tollhouses in England.
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