Site of Toll Gate on Birmingham Road
Description of this historic site
The site of a toll gate, where travellers would have paid a toll to use Birmingham Road, a toll road. The toll gate probably dates back to the Post Medieval period. It is marked on an estate map of 1805 and was situated 600m north east of Wroxall Abbey.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A heavy line drawn across the road and labelled ‘tollgate’.
2 No further reference could be found and nothing could be seen on the site.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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