Old Photograph Powburn Toll House Uddingston Scotland

Old photograph of Powburn Toll House in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. A Toll house at the junction of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Road with the Hamilton and Glasgow Road. Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1840, according to the Turnpike Returns in Parliamentary Papers, there were over 5,000 tollhouses operating in England. These were sold off in the 1880s when the turnpikes were closed. Many were demolished but several hundred have survived as domestic houses, with distinctive features of the old tollhouse still visible.



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