The Old Toll House, Beacon Hill, Newark
This is a former toll house on Beacon Hill Road, Newark and now disused but was built for the Newark Turnpike Trust. It stood on the Leadenham to Southwell turnpike road which was sanctioned by parliament in 1758. It is over 200yrs old, being built around 1820!
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 19th centuries. At the peak, in the 1830s, over 1,000 trusts administered around 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of turnpike road in England and Wales, taking tolls at almost 8,000 toll-gates and side-bars.
The Old Toll House, Beacon Hill, Newark
This is a former toll house on Beacon Hill Road, Newark and now disused but was built for the Newark Turnpike Trust. It stood on the Leadenham to Southwell turnpike road which was sanctioned by parliament in 1758. It is over 200yrs old, being built around 1820!
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 19th centuries. At the peak, in the 1830s, over 1,000 trusts administered around 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of turnpike road in England and Wales, taking tolls at almost 8,000 toll-gates and side-bars.