• The tolbooth was one of three essential features in a Scottish burgh, along with the mercat cross and the kirk (church).
  • The main feature of the Tolbooth is its impressive Court Room where once the town provosts made proclamations and magistrates made orders that unworthy...
  • The Tolbooth is a 17th century gaol or prison in Aberdeen, Scotland that is now a museum and no longer holds prisoners.
  • The Tolbooth as its name suggests was usually a place at or near a main gate into a town where literally any tolls, or local taxes, and customs were collected.
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  • Throughout the years the Tolbooth served as a point for the collection of customs or charges imposed on all goods brought in to the town for market.
  • Those three ancient buildings, the Castle, the Tolbooth, and the Collegiate Church, give an air of antiquity to our town which few places have, and an observing...
  • The first archival record referring to the Tolbooth is a proclamation made 1586 and then in 1588 a reference is made to repairs to the building.
  • In 1686, a market cross was built in front of the tolbooth. It was restored in 1821 and then moved to its present site in 1827.[6].
  • The Tolbooth Tavern in Edinburgh is part of the original Canongate Tolbooth which was built in 1591. ... The ground floor became The Tolbooth Tavern in 1820.