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main image Balgedie Tavern, Balgedie Toll, Kinross-shire
This public house, like many others in Scotland, was situated at a road toll. Travellers had to break their journey to pay road tolls, before travelling on.

As buildings, most rural drinking places were indistinguishable from houses. The exceptions were inns sponsored by landowners, in which case the accommodation of travellers would have been their principal raison d'etre.

In the 19th century, there were many places where alcohol could be bought. In the 1840s, the ratio across central Scotland was one for every 150 people.


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