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London’s Last Toll Road

In the desirable south London suburb of Dulwich, a 1.5 km stretch of College Road (so named because, unsurprisingly, it is where the impressive Dulwich College can be found) is the only place in the capital that still has an operative tollgate, charging £1.20 for a single journey.

The origins of the tollgate date back to 1787, when the Lord of the Manor of Penge, John Morgan, was renting fields near Dulwich College , and obtained permission to construct a road through Dulwich Woods to link the fields to Penge Common (now Crystal Palace Park) and give better access for his cattle and carts. The road quickly became a popular route to get between Dulwich and Sydenham Hill, so in an effort to control the number of road users, John Morgan decided to construct a tollgate cottage and hire a toll-keeper to collect payments. When his lease of the land ended in 1809, Dulwich College retained the services of the gatekeeper and continued collecting the toll.

The toll road would seem to have been relatively lucrative for some years in the mid-19th Century - the opening of the Crystal Palace brought a lot more traffic to the road, though by the 1890s the construction of more direct (and free) routes and the waning popularity of the Palace reduced this traffic considerably. Around this time, London County Council attempted to abolish the tollgate, but were unsuccessful as the compensation to the landowners and costs for making up the road were too high.

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Google Map released a new feature. It will help us plan the trip easily that’ll add up toll amounts on your route, so you can choose the option that’s cheaper or has no tolls. This feature has been available for users only in the US, Japan, India, and Indonesia. Both on iOS and Android systems, with other countries in the process of expanding the service. Previously, Google Maps used to just show you if a particular route has tolls.

The firm has started to collect toll prices from local authorities for nearly 2,000 roads in those countries. Given the vast network of roads in these regions, it’s not much, but at least it is well considered.