Site of Toll House on Southam Rd/Fosse Way

Road with grass verge on either side and road junction | Image courtesy of Gary Stocker
 
Site of toll booth on Southam Road/Fosse Way, 2019
Image courtesy of Gary Stocker
Description of this historic site

The site of a toll house, where tolls were collected from travellers using the toll road. The toll house is marked on the Tithe Award Map of 1843. It was situated at the junction of Southam Road and Fosse Way, Radford Semele.

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Notes about this historic site

1 Tollhouse marked at the junction of the Fosse and Southam Road.
2 A gentleman wrote in 1913 that he could remember a toll bar on the Fosse.

  • For the sources of these notes, see the
  • Timetrail record
  • produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Locations
Radford Semele (80)
Subjects
Tollhouses (61)
Time periods
Industrial Age - 1751-1913 (7479)
Alternative reference number
MWA1908

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