Dunkeld Bridge, Tollhouse
Toll House (Post Medieval)
Site Name Dunkeld Bridge, Tollhouse
Classification Toll House (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 79397
Site Number NO04SW 49
NGR NO 02688 42349
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79397
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Little Dunkeld
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO04SW 49 02688 42349
For (associated) Dunkeld Bridge, see NO04SW 34.
(Location cited as NO 027 424). (Bridge) built 1805-9 by engineer Thomas Telford. The tollhouse is a single-storey ashlar building with a semihexagonal projecting bay and Tudor windows; the windows have diamond panes.
J R Hume 1977.
Construction (November 1808)
Bridge opened for toll business, 1808.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Project (2007)
This project was undertaken to input site information listed in 'Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' by R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Publication Account (2007)
The bridge, which replaced inconvenient and often hazardous ferries, was a toll bridge and the original toll
house still stands at the southern abutment. The citizens of Dunkeld strongly objected to the tolls, culminating in riots in 1868. The tolls were abolished in 1879 when the bridge was taken over by Perthshire County Council.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
