Tollhouse
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A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road, canal, or toll bridge.
Northgate Toll House, Aberaeron
Toll House in Burke, Vermont. This house was home to the toll collector for the road on Burke Mountain.
Toll house at the Bratch Locks, Wombourne, on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, circa 1772
The Grochów Tollhouse in Praga-Południe, Warsaw, Poland
Turnpike trust
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Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 1
Tollhouse
…house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road, canal, or toll bridge. Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those built in the early 19th century often had a distinctive bay front to…
The Hyde Park Gate in London, erected by the Kensington Turnpike Trust. This was the first toll point encountered along the Bath Road, upon leaving London.
Chevaux de frise, Siege of Petersburg, American Civil War
The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land.
The front page of the act to create the Fyfield Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Gloucester in 1738