Toll roads - old ones that is

[Pica-Pica]

I am not talking the M6 toll or anything like that. We have a toll-house in our village, which prompted me to think about old toll roads and toll houses.
When I started to drive, their used to be a toll road on the under-cliff at Sandgate, between Hythe and Folkestone (Kent). It used to be a 1.5 old pence. By then it was travelled more as a curiosity than a practical through road.
I believe there is one across a very small bridge upstream across the Mersey. Any other curious toll roads that have survived?

[CraigyMc]

Pica-Pica said:

I am not talking the M6 toll or anything like that. We have a toll-house in our village, which prompted me to think about old toll roads and toll houses.
When I started to drive, their used to be a toll road on the under-cliff at Sandgate, between Hythe and Folkestone (Kent). It used to be a 1.5 old pence. By then it was travelled more as a curiosity than a practical through road.
I believe there is one across a very small bridge upstream across the Mersey. Any other curious toll roads that have survived?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-B4jKqDzVL...

[Mammasaid]

Aldwark Toll Bridge, North Yorks

https://www.aldwarkbridge.com/

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.0531866,-1.29012...

[Dr Interceptor]

There's a small toll bridge in Bathampton, I think its about 70 or 80p to cross

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Batheaston+Brid...

[CraigyMc]

Dr Interceptor said:

There's a small toll bridge in Bathampton, I think its about 70 or 80p to cross

https://www.google.com/maps/search/Batheaston+Brid...

Row 15 on the list I posted.

[anonymous-user]

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

[MDMA .]

There's still a toll bridge at Warburton over the Manchester Ship Canal. Been there since 1863 (in another guise). It's 12p each way, or 25p per day. Yearly passes available at about £25-30. Been a while since I worked in Altrincham, but used to go over it every day.

[ElectricSoup]

garyhun said:

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

60p a pop now.

http://whitchurchonthames.com/bridge.html

[MDMA .]

CraigyMc said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-B4jKqDzVL...

Link doesn't seem to open.

[anonymous-user]

ElectricSoup said:

garyhun said:

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

60p a pop now.

http://whitchurchonthames.com/bridge.html

Bloody hell! Mind you, I was crossing between 1991 and 1999 so a fair few years back.

[Trackdayer]

garyhun said:

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

I got stung by that after picking up a car from a dodgy trader nearby (he's in prison now)

[anonymous-user]

Trackdayer said:

garyhun said:

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

I got stung by that after picking up a car from a dodgy trader nearby (he's in prison now)

Not a new Lambo then?

[ElectricSoup]

garyhun said:

ElectricSoup said:

garyhun said:

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

60p a pop now.

http://whitchurchonthames.com/bridge.html

Bloody hell! Mind you, I was crossing between 1991 and 1999 so a fair few years back.

Keeps the Oxfordshire riff-raff out of Reading.

[Trackdayer]

Dunham Bridge!

[Fastdruid]

On a related note. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVXVNX4Crh4

[Mammasaid]

MDMA . said:

CraigyMc said:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-B4jKqDzVL...

Link doesn't seem to open.

https://www.gov.uk/uk-toll-roads

[JakeT]

ElectricSoup said:

garyhun said:

ElectricSoup said:

garyhun said:

There’s still a private toll bridge in Pangbourne, Berks.

I used to buy a book of passes, discounted to 3p iIrc, for the crossing every day to Reading for work.

Absolute gold mine for the owners.

60p a pop now.

http://whitchurchonthames.com/bridge.html

Bloody hell! Mind you, I was crossing between 1991 and 1999 so a fair few years back.

Keeps the Oxfordshire riff-raff out of Reading.

Until it’s after hours and the gates are locked open.

It’s the best surfaced piece of road for miles around too!

[underwhelmist]

There's a toll road you can use to avoid the steepest bits of Porlock Hill in Devon.

[LuS1fer]

We thankfully got rid of the tolls on the two bridges over the Severn but I think the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol is still a toll.

In theory, these pollution zone charges are tolls.

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

I recently cycled over the Cartford Toll Bridge in Lancashire. I doubt whether the owners will have seen much of the 20p I paid on my phone!