Beat me to it?

It seems that someone back in the days of 8-bit computing had already mapped the tollhouses in Hampshire:

View Hampshire tollhouses in a larger map

New Alresford tollhouse

I have added a page for the New Alresford tollhouse to the site here.

Although I have not yet taken any pictures of this tollhouse I have managed to find an old photo of it in the Hampshire County Council archives and also added a link to the English Heritage site giving the details of its listed status.

HCC have 7 other photos of tollhouses (returned by an archive search on "tollhouse") but none of these seem to be still standing.

Website update

I have just updated my website with a new page for one of the tollhouses in Twyford, Hampshire.

The page has a few photos I took today, a map of the building's location and a link to the English Heritage page giving the listed building details.

The Devon map is still in production, might be done by the end of the week if I get a couple of good hours spent on it.

Tollhouse national ID

I have started using the Tollhouse National ID codes on the pages on my website. Using this will help link entries on my site to the information at various other places, including the Turnpike Road website and Tollhouse Alan's Flickr pages.

I am still working on the Devon map. There are a lot of tollhouses in this county so it is taking a while. Tollhouse Alan has kindly provided me with an up to date copy of his spreadsheet and a pointer to some Google Earth information that should speed things up.

I have also been in contact with the Hampshire County Council archives people who are happy for me to link to tollhouse related items they hold, so expect those to start appearing on my site soon. I assume other counties have similar archives and will be contacting them once I have run out of local stuff to link to.

Keith

Summary of progress

I have been at this mapping thing for a few weeks now and I thought I would show my overall progress on a map of the UK.

Green counties have had an initial map produced for them. Devon is orange as that is the one I am currently working on.

It's going to take a while to map the entire country!

Sources that I have been using include Tollhouse Alan's Flickr pages, his turnpike pages, the OS website and general searches in Google.

Dorset map in progress

I am about 75% done with the tollhouse map of Dorset. Will have it posted here in the next day or two.

Website gets new pages

I have done some updates to my tollhouses website here.

I have added a page for Wiltshire, as I have just finished its map. Also I have roughed out pages for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as I have a couple of photos to go into those already.

I need to choose the next county to map, I am thinking Dorset.

Updates to tollhouse pages

I have added pages for the four tollhouses I photographed on Sunday. They can be found on my tollhouse website, the Hampshire page is here.

I have come up with what I think is a sensible design for the website. It should allow me to extend it to cover all tollhouses in the whole country quite easily.

4 Hampshire tollhouses photographed

We bagged the ones in Whitchurch, Wherwell, Hurstborne Tarrant and my old one in Chineham.
Photos should be available this evening.

Updating map

I have been adding Hampshire tollhouses to the UK map page.

As well as the map, I am planning to put a kml file for each county on the blog, starting with Hampshire tomorrow. This should make it easier for people who want to visit a few of the interesting and historic buildings to plan their route.

Map of tollhouses

I have added a map page on which I will put a pin for each tollhouse I know about. Click the tab near the top to see the page

First!

I used to live in a tollhouse on the outskirts of Basingstoke. The original building was more than 200 years old and an extension built in the '80s more than doubled the size of the house.

I will dig out my own photos of the house, but for the time being it can be seen in several other places online, for instance:

Flickr

geograph