Old Toll House - Glastonbury, Somerset - Bygone Toll Houses on Waymarking.com

The Old Toll House at No.48 Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, served the Shepton Mallet Turnpike Trust in the 18th & 19th centuries. The trust was created in 1753. Its main responsibilities were:
(a) the bath road towards Wells
(b) the road towards SW Somerset through Ilchester and
(c) a network of roads radiating from the market town into East Somerset.
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"The Turnpike Trust’s Minutes for 1 September 1800 record 'Glastonbury Gate with the side Gate', the side gate relating to Tor (later Wellhouse) Lane. The Tithe map shows a toll house here (plot 507) but the Minutes reported that a new toll house was virtually complete by April 1860. This suggests either a rebuilt structure or a house that had deteriorated and was sold off to an adjoining landowner when another was constructed. Unusually the existing building retains small windows which permit views along the road in both directions. The house was sold when the Trust was dissolved in 1878 but has remained as a private dwelling."

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The toll board is a quite recent addition; at the bottom it lists the price of travel for Hippies, shaved or unshaven.

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