Byes Toll House plaque

The public map records this plaque for Byes Toll House. Its recorded inscription reads: Byes Toll House. Waterloo Bridge was built across the Sid in about 1817, when Salcombe Road provided improved eastern access to the town. A Turnpike Trust was established to collect tolls to help maintain the road. [...]

Byes Toll House was part of a Turnpike Trust system established to manage and maintain Waterloo Bridge and the surrounding roads, reflecting the importance of private initiatives in 19th-century infrastructure development.