Wateringbury toll gate (1804)

Post date: Feb 25, 2012 3:34:6 PM

Extract from Kentish Gazette 30th October 1804. 

TOLLS TO LET. NOTICE is hereby given, that the Tolls arising from certain Toll-gates upon the Turnpike Road leading from the Brick-kilns on East Malling Heath to the Turnpike Road on Pembury Green, and from Brandbridge to the Four Wents near Matfield Green, in the county of Kent, called or known by the names of the Wateringbury Bow Gate, Hatches Gate, Moncktons Gate, Kiln Lane Gate, tbe Beltring Green Gates, the Malfield Green otherwise Chonming Green Gate, and the Pembury Gate, will let auction the best bidder, at the house of William Walton, called Rose and Crown, East Peckham, in the said county, on Wednesday the 28th day of November next, between tbe hours of eleven and one, the manner directed the Act passed in the 15th-year of the reign of his present Majesty for regulating Turnpike Roads. And which said gates produced the last year, the several sums following, that is to say, the Wateringbury Bow Hatches, Moncktons, and Kiln-lane gates together  £162 4s. 6d. tbe Beltring Green gates £125 19s. 9d. the Matfield Green, otherwise Chowning Green gate £38 11s. 5d. and the Pembury gate £......exclusive of the expense of collecting the same, and will be put at those sums. Whoever happens to be the best bidder, must at the same time give security, with sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of the Trustees of the said Turnpike Road, for payment of the rent agreed for, and at such times as they shall direct.

Town Malling,                                                By Order the said Trustees 

29th October, 1804.                                       DUDLOW and BURT, Clerks.