Toll House restored

WORKING with the Canal & River Trust volunteers have restored Dundas Aqueduct Toll House on the Kennet & Avon Canal.

The past year has been spent working on the toll house that sits at one end of the Dundas Aqueduct on the waterway, with the intention of making it a ‘welcome station' for visitors to the aqueduct.

John Rennie

The aqueduct was created by the waterways engineer John Rennie, to take the canal over the Avon, and it was the first canal structure to be designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The toll house was of course erected for the original canal company to take fees from boats, either using the Kennet & Avon or onto the now derelict Somerset Coal Canal.