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Pontage was a toll
levied for the
building or
repair of
bridges dating to the
medieval era in England,
Wales and Ireland.
Pontage was
similar in nature...
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before 1252, when the
bailiff and men of the town
received a
grant of
pontage for one year
towards its repairs.
Several similar grants followed, the...
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England and
Wales (1870–72) all
users of the
bridge were
required to pay a
pontage to cross. The
bridge was the only
means of
communication between the townships...
- ponderous, pound, preponderance,
preponderate pons pont-
bridge pons,
pontage, pontic, pontile, pontine, pontonier, pontoon, punt
populus popul- depo****te...
- the
bridge repairs that
followed floods, as the cost of
these repairs or
pontage had to be
raised by
borrowing money and
charging a
local toll. The largest...
- two more are 74 feet (23 m) and the land-arches are 20 feet (6 m). The
pontage was
abolished in 1879. The
bridge was
built between 1805 and 1809 by Thomas...
- late-medieval construction. A
bridge already existed here in 1339, as a
grant of
pontage was
issued to fund
repairs after damage by a flood. The nine
spans vary...
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bridge brought military advantage in
times of
unrest and
excise duty, or
pontage dues, in peacetime.
Unsurprisingly excise men were
installed in a covered...
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Mobile bridge 70 (2013)
SPRAT France
Modular ****ault
bridge 10
Vedette de
pontage F2 France
Bridging speedboat 8
Robots MINIROGEN (ECA
COBRA MK2) France...
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Chisman Bobby Renton 1952
Frosty Knight 6
Charles Straker Ian
Straker 1953
Pontage 7
Bunny Cox Dan
Moore 1954
Quare Times 8
Bunny Cox
Vincent O'Brien 1955...
