Description

SX 55 SE YEALMPTON YEALM BRIDGE
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Yealm Bridge Toll-Hut

II

Toll-keeper's shelter. Circa later C18 or early C19. Small stone rubble hut, square
on plan with very steeply pitched stone corbelled roof with gable to front. Arched
entrance at front. Small square look-out opening on west side. Circular interior
with small square niche (or blocked opening) on east side. Completely overgrown with
ivy at time of survey 1983/4. Note: This toll-hut is on the Plympton to Modbury
section of the Modbury Trust turnpike (Turnpike Act of 1759). It may have been built
then or soon after 1759 and therefore the original toll-house before the Yealm Bridge
Toll-house qv was built in the early C19 to combat the evasion of tolls.
References: The Turnpike Road System in England 1663-1840 by William Albert, page
209.
Devon Toll-houses pages 29 and 34, Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, Department of
Economic History, Exeter University.

Listing NGR: SX5931852013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26593319

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6