Site of Toll Gate on Southam Road
Description of this historic site
The site of a toll gate, where travellers would have paid a toll to use the turnpike road. It dated to the Imperial period and was located on the southern side of Southam Road, Radford Semele.
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Notes about this historic site
1 W J Hitchcox says that the tollgate was situated on the turnpike about 25m E of the White Lion. In the 1920s the footings were discovered and again in 1971, but they are now mainly beneath the footpath. The tollgate had a small cottage near to the gate on the one side, and a small gate for foot passengers on the other.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
At one time (pre 1923) a Thomas Freeman told a story that there was a feud between the toll gate keeper and parish clerk. One night the parish clerk took his ass through there no less than seven times one night to “get his own back”. In exasperation the toll gate keeper left the gate open for the rest of the night. Resulting in him losing his job.
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