Show ANCIENT LONDON TOLL GATE link dist distant ant pat past and pre travelers have paid ent where since 1135 1136 j london curious still till adorn or HP alch 0 of f 1 the pail past disfigure the streets f w me tv t insider we world a biggest bl city are a ot of thase or ancient loll 1011 got batee some tho beck back ae fer far a dale date old berrane a there it 1 one it in I 1 elee eleventh nth benl ura und and the nast end ot of ondon london I which can call this tiace lie its bistor lilB tur lo 10 the tile er 1135 not of 0 churbe courbe u toll ill gate still till rei tho the actual material of 0 tha first lka ass 17 F 11 toll oate gate ir in london erected in 1135 tion across the little thoroughfare known as abbey lane but its counterpart and tolls are still collect colle cUd d on state occasions nith ith much pomp and ce remon this la is in fact the oldest toll gate in lit I 1 ingland figland it was as erected in the filst instance by the monks belonging to the abbey of or stratford 1 langthorne aglon ng lon one of tho the earliest cistercian dounda lions la in I 1 angland the abbey in those early days held most of tho the lands on which the present Is g built in III tact fact the name itself Is considered I 1 y some to be from an early structure of this order which blood stood in the open field now covered by the seething life in the fast past end curious enough this old toll gate at the top ot or abbey lane still pos sessell many ancient privileges and the gatekeeper la lit a person of some im kven even the london county council his no power to open tho the gate the official consent of the keeper at the old abbey lano lane toll gate the traffic Is wise enough to lass around lie other side of the barrier by a pub put lit 1 thoroughfare and thus escape the toll and so the gatekeeper and hia his barrier are left scYe severely rely alone except on one or two officio 11 occasions when it la Is necessary to declare the gate a legal barrier in the early earl days this old gate stood on oue one of the hichwa a between Stratford then a straggling village age surrounded by open fields and tow towns n a on the east coast cout and there was nas considerable coaching through it about yeara years ago the toll road was never entirely abolished hut but the public built roads toads around it and thus its mon monopoly opol disappeared one or to viro efforts have been made recently to tim me e the old toll gate removed alto gether but the antiquarians have come to the rescue and go so it stands to today d ay the oldest and one of the quaintest links with the distant past |