Bagstone Gate toll board

The tolls (charges) for using the turnpike road at Wotton-under-Edge are advertised on this wooden board, which originally stood at Bagstone Gate. The lettering on the board appears raised as the unpainted areas around the letters have eroded due to weathering.

J382, toll board (image/tiff)
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Summary

: J382

: Industrial and Maritime History

: toll board

: Painted wooden turnpike toll board from the Bagstone Gate on the wotton-Under-Edge turnpike at Rangeworthy, Glos. Weather has eroded the wood around the protected painted lettering.

Bagstone Gate toll board

Current Location

On Display at M Shed, Bristol Places Gallery

: 1837

: Berkeley, Dursley, Wotton Under Edge, Frocester and Caincross Turnpike Trust

: Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) / England, Northern Europe, Europe

: Rangeworthy, Wotton Under Edge, Glos

: 1837

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