'Beechwood' is the first house on the north side of Leven Road, adjacent to the Fir Park (on left of image below). It's neighbours also had tree-themed names - 'Rowan Cottage' and 'The Chestnuts'. Then, of course, comes 'Woodielea Road'. In the photograph below some kind of metal pole can be seen embedded in the wall between Beechwood and Fir Park - could this have been a remnant of the old toll bar?
We see from an 1894 OS map that the old toll house still stood just before the major development of Lundin Links, and long after it had gone out of active service. Presumably it was not demolished until the Post Office was ready to be built in its place in 1895/6. It also seems that the last toll keeper, John Myles, who we know to have been living in the toll house from 1871, if not earlier, stayed with his family in the decommissioned building until it was finally demolished. In the 1891 census his family were in the 'Old Toll House'. So, where did they go after 25 years or more in the toll house? By the 1901 census, the family are directly across the road in the villa named 'Beechwood' built just a few years previously.
'Beechwood' is the first house on the north side of Leven Road, adjacent to the Fir Park (on left of image below). It's neighbours also had tree-themed names - 'Rowan Cottage' and 'The Chestnuts'. Then, of course, comes 'Woodielea Road'. In the photograph below some kind of metal pole can be seen embedded in the wall between Beechwood and Fir Park - could this have been a remnant of the old toll bar?
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