Fugar Turnpike toll house

HER Number

3744

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Fugar Turnpike toll house

Place

Whickham

Map Sheet

NZ25NW

Class

Transport

Site Type: Broad

Road Transport Site

Site Type: Specific

Toll House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Fugar Turnpike toll house, on the Gateshead to Wolsingham Road, is shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. The trustees of the turnpike let out the gates yearly to the highest bidder. In 1864 Fugar was valued at oe176, Crookgate bar at oe 256. Mary Sinclair was the keeper at Fugar in 1841. The toll was abolished in the mid 1870s. The tollhouse was demolished in the late 1930s.

Easting

421890

Northing

559720

Grid Reference

NZ421890559720

Sources

1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6; Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Streetgate, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/streetgate.html