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The Grade II Listed Penmaenpool toll bridge, a wooden toll bridge built in 1868 by the Penmaenpool bridge company to replace the then ferry crossing over the Afon Mawddach. It is one of very few surviving wooden toll bridges still in operation. In Penmaenpool, Gwynedd, Wales.
The Penmaenpool bridge company originally rented the roadway for £10 per annum from the Hengwrt estate. Tickets were adopted on 1st March 1937 and the bridge is still in use today. The toll booth was added around 1900.
On July 22 1966 the bridge was the scene of one of the countries worst ever pleasure boat disasters. The Prince of Wales, was on a two-hour return trip from Barmouth to Penmaenpool, when it hit the Penmaenpool toll bridge and sank with the loss of 15 lives.
Information partly gained from www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/50th-commemorat...
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The Grade II Listed Penmaenpool toll bridge, a wooden toll bridge built in 1868 by the Penmaenpool bridge company to replace the then ferry crossing over the Afon Mawddach. It is one of very few surviving wooden toll bridges still in operation. In Penmaenpool, Gwynedd, Wales.
The Penmaenpool bridge company originally rented the roadway for £10 per annum from the Hengwrt estate. Tickets were adopted on 1st March 1937 and the bridge is still in use today. The toll booth was added around 1900.
On July 22 1966 the bridge was the scene of one of the countries worst ever pleasure boat disasters. The Prince of Wales, was on a two-hour return trip from Barmouth to Penmaenpool, when it hit the Penmaenpool toll bridge and sank with the loss of 15 lives.
Information partly gained from www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/50th-commemorat...