Bathampton Toll Bridge
Privately owned Victorian stone toll bridge with pointed arches over the River Avon and a toll house.
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This guide to Bathampton Toll Bridge, just east of Bath, is about money: who has charged to cross the Avon here, and who has paid. It opens on a November morning in twenty seventeen, when three army trucks pulled up at the booth on Remembrance weekend. Along the way you'll meet an eighteen thirty-one landowner with a thousand-year lease, and the Victorian builders who gave a business a medieval face. Best heard standing by the toll house, within earshot of the booth.
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