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Old Travel Blog Photograph Toll House Pinwherry Scotland
Old travel Blog photograph of the Toll House by Pinwherry, Ayrshire, Scotland. In the old days too, Toll houses with turnpike gates were set up by Act of law, the revenue being used for the upkeep of the roads. Such a toll house was to be found at Daljarrock and here the tolls were collected form traffic to and from Girvan. Another was situated at Pinwherry bridge for travellers going to and from Barrhill. Many people trying to evade paying the tax used the ford at Almont and joined the old back road opposite Pinwherry Home Farm, but Check Toll was built to catch the dodgers. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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