Location of a City Corporation coal-tax post, Church Road, Little Heath
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Location of a City Corporation coal-tax post, Church Road, Little Heath
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 11 Aug 2013
View west, from near the junction with the Great North Road. The Coal Duties Act of 1851 gave the Corporation of the City of London the power to tax coal and other goods (including wine and spirits) entering the Metropolitan area. Crossing points into the area (at which tax would be collected) were marked by posts of various designs - though this white-painted cast-iron post is typical: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3598994l. Presumably a ring of such posts once extended right round the capital. For whatever reason, the greatest concentration of surviving posts seems to be here in south Hertfordshire. The Church Road post is one of two within not many yards of each other:http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3598965
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