Detail View: SHIMMER: Tollhouse
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Title:
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Tollhouse
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Creation Date:
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1771
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Image Date:
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2013
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Period:
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18th century ; 20th century
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Location:
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Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
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Country:
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WALES, UK
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Display Creator:
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not known
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Image ID:
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14-0047
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Description:
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Exterior view of Tollhouse at St Fagans Natural History Museum. It was dismantled and moved here in 1962 from Penparcau on the outskirts of Aberystwyth. A one room building used for collecting tolls from road users. It opened in 1772 and closed for toll gathering in 1889, it was used as a private house between 1890 and 1960.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
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Related Information:
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Penparcau Tollhouse. For more information see also < http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/stfagans/buildings/tollhouse/ > .
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Creator:
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not known
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Creator Role:
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Architect.
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Subject Heading:
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Open-air museums -- Wales
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Subject Heading:
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Toll roads
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Subject Heading:
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Tollhouses
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Subject Heading:
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Architecture -- Wales
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