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main image Tollhouse, Barnhill, Perth, Perthshire
Tollhouses were the points at which tolls (fees for using privately financed highways) were collected on turnpike roads. The earliest toll roads in Scotland, for Midlothian, were authorised in 1713.

This is an early-19th century Grecian Doric tollhouse, on the Perth to Dundee turnpike. The panel on the right gives a table of tolls.

Between 1750 and 1844, nearly 350 Acts of Parliament were passed for tolls on Scottish roads. In 1878, turnpike trusts were abolished, responsibility passing to county road trustees and in 1889 to county councils.


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