Today’s history lesson! Along the Main Line and the New Main Line are Toll or Gauging Points. Generally these were at a lock but here they have built an artificially constricted part of the canal so that the boat had to pass within inches of the toll point and unable to evade the toll. On canals where the fee was based on cargo weight it also put the boat in a convenient place to read the gauging mark height from the water line. Canals were set up Toll point with a Telford Aquaduct behindas
I am Linda and along with my husband Richard and our dog Muffin we enjoy our summers on the UK's canal system
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Tuesday 26th July
Today’s history lesson! Along the Main Line and the New Main Line are Toll or Gauging Points. Generally these were at a lock but here they have built an artificially constricted part of the canal so that the boat had to pass within inches of the toll point and unable to evade the toll. On canals where the fee was based on cargo weight it also put the boat in a convenient place to read the gauging mark height from the water line. Canals were set up Toll point with a Telford Aquaduct behindas
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