Local Toll Gates, Booths & Bars

Contents:

• General Points
• Local Toll Gates, booths & Bars
• Local Turnpikes

General Points

There were many 17th and 18th century toll-bars, toll-booths, toll-gates, and toll-bridges on the turnpike roads in and around the district

These were manned by a pikeman who collected the tolls

The tolls went towards paying for the maintenance of the road

Local Examples

Ambler Thorn Toll House Bailiff Bridge Toll House Bar Lane Toll House, Rishworth Bar Wood, Luddendenfoot Birchcliffe Road Toll Bar, Hebden Bridge Birks Bar, Walsden Bonegate Toll Booth Bradley Bar Bridge Street Bar, Brighouse Brow Bridge Toll Gate Clifton Common Toll Bar Coley Toll Bar Commercial Street Bar, Hebden Bridge Common Wood Head Bar, Hipperholme Copley Toll Booth Cross Stone Toll Bar Dauber Bridge Toll House Dryclough Toll Bar, Halifax Elland Higher Toll Gate Elland Lower Toll Gate Elland Road Toll Bar, Brighouse Ellistones Lane Toll House, Greetland Friendly Bar Friendly Toll House&44; Burnley Road Gauxholme Toll House Gibson Mill Toll Gate Gibson's Bridge, Heptonstall Godley Lane Toll Gate Hebble End Bar, Hebden Bridge Hebden Bridge Toll Bar Hipperholme Toll Bar Holme House Bar, Lightcliffe

Kilnhurst Toll Bar, Todmorden Kilnhurst Toll House, Todmorden King Cross Toll Gate Kirklees Toll House, Brighouse Knowle Top Bar, Lightcliffe Lane Head Bar, Brighouse Lee Bridge Toll Bar, Halifax Lidget Gate Toll Gate Lumbutts Road Toll House, Walsden Naylor Lane Bar, Luddendenfoot North Bridge Toll Bar North Dean Toll Gate Old Lane Chain Bar Toll Gate Pecket Bar, Pecket Well Raggalds Inn Bar, Queensbury Rawroyds Mill, Holywell Green Ripponden Toll House Rishworth Toll House Sawood House Bar, Hipperholme Scout Road Toll House, Mytholmroyd Shelf Toll House Smithy Carr Lane Toll Bar, Brighouse Sowerby Bridge Toll Gate Steanor Bottom Toll House, Walsden Stump Cross Toll Gate Waggon & Horses, Holywell Green Wakefield Road Toll Gate, Sowerby Bridge Walsden Toll Bar Whiskum Toll Bar White Lion Toll Bar, Hebden Bridge

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