The Tollhouse (with gas-lamp in position over the door guiding in the weary travellers) stood at the junction of Dead Lane (later called St Peter's Road) and the A120, Colchester Road. Raincroft barn, destroyed by fire in May 1904, can be seen in the distance on the right and opposite, the row of cottages were anciently known as 'Rotten Row'.
The road here was a steep hill (for Essex) and the scene of many accidents, maimings and even deaths when wagons and other vehicles got out of control.
The Tollhouse Inn stopped trading in about 1965 and was compulsorily purchased in order to build a roundabout to improve road junction with St Peters Road and the Feering Road. This was before the by-pass and the A120 had become increasingly busy. The Toll House was demolished and the site cleared but then nothing happened - perhaps by then the northern bypass was planned and the roundabout was unnecessary. New houses have now been built on the site but the junction is exactly the same as it always was.
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Date; c 1890
Ref 25/12
The road here was a steep hill (for Essex) and the scene of many accidents, maimings and even deaths when wagons and other vehicles got out of control.
The Tollhouse Inn stopped trading in about 1965 and was compulsorily purchased in order to build a roundabout to improve road junction with St Peters Road and the Feering Road. This was before the by-pass and the A120 had become increasingly busy. The Toll House was demolished and the site cleared but then nothing happened - perhaps by then the northern bypass was planned and the roundabout was unnecessary. New houses have now been built on the site but the junction is exactly the same as it always was.
Click here for more on the Toll House
Date; c 1890
Ref 25/12
Also in: East & West St.
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