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Tonnage Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Dilham

Etymology

, presumably a bridge where a tax or duty was collected ( v. OED s.v. tonnage 'tax or duty levied on cargo orfreight, orig. on wine imported in tuns or casks', from OFrtonnage , Lat tonnagium ) .