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Coal and Wine Tax Posts - The List

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Table Columns

This is the post's Nail Number - see Sources below. Posts are listed anticlockwise from the estuary - with possibly a few deviations from strict line-of-boundary sequence.

Type

Nail Type - see post types below. The key to the type suffices, eg. 2a** is not yet to hand.

OS Grid Ref

Links are to photo pages. Yellow highlight means the Grid Ref in the [CoL] version of the Nail list is wrong. The correct one appears here.

Village

Many of these posts still stand on boundaries so it is not always possible to tell exactly in which local authority area a given post stands. Therefore the village and area names should not be treated too rigidly.

Photo location:	B - [Bro] site
	E - Images of England from English Heritage
	R - RWH - this site If this is a link, the photo caption provides a bit more information about the post
	W - Wheeler Systems Network

Location

Sources

[Nail]	*The Coal Duties of the City of London and their Boundary Marks*, 1972 by Martin Nail. This report gives each Post a number - the Nail Number and a Type. A copy of the report is held by the Corporation of London Records Office. Tel 020 7332 1251. [RWH] has not yet had sight of this report but believes that it is the source (probably with very little change) of …
[CoL]	Corporation of London - full list as a small PDF
[B57]	Bourne Society Bulletin - 1957
[Elm]	Elmbridge list
[Bro]	Hertfordshire list - Brookmans Park site
[IoE]	Images of England - difficult to find Coal Post entries - try these results of searching
[Cro]	London Borough of Croydon - list of Listed Buildings
[RWH]	'>Roger W Haworth - editor and photographer of these pages

Post Types

Sadly the sources have used their own codes for the different post types. In the main table the Nail types are used. They are listed below together with the codes used by the other two sources that give post types.

Nail		Bro	Elm
1	Slightly tapered granite obelisks, 4 feet high, erected on the banks of canals and rivers	C	4
2	Square cast iron column with bevelled corners, 3 to 4 feet high - the most common type	D	1
3	Cast-iron boxes or plates, about 10 inches square, built into the parapets of bridges	-	-
4	Four sided stone or cast-iron obelisks on a square base, 14 feet high, erected by the side of railways prior to the 1861 Act	A	2
5	Cast iron obelisks on a square base, 5 feet high, erected beside railways	B	3

Editor's Notes

To call them Nail Numbers is apt because the word nail has a secondary meaning of pillar or post as in pay on the nail. (Nails are possibly unique to Bath and Bristol - see this and this).
I have eliminated ¼, ½ & ¾ for consistency but mainly because these characters are outside the basic ASCII range and are thus slightly less portable.
I like to record "at the point where it becomes" because the road changes its name for the same reason that the Tax Post is there.

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