Halfpenny Toll Bridge, Lechlade
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Halfpenny Bridge is a bridge across the River Thames, at Lechlade, Gloucestershire. It marks the limit of navigation.
The bow-backed bridge was built to a design of James Hollingworth in 1792. It was called the Halfpenny bridge because that was the toll charged for pedestrians to cross it, until the toll was done away with in 1839.
The toll house is thought to have been built for the Lechlade to Swindon Turnpike Trust in 1793 and is in the form of a simple booth. It is single-storey on a rectangular floor plan, having a pyramidal slate roof, with walls mainly of squared stone, square headed windows with casements, no porch with a square headed doorway. It is a small square building with foundations to river level, on the north side of the bridge.
It is listed Grade II
On the A361 road to Swindon where it crosses the Thames in Lechlade.
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