tolbooth
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thumb|upright=1.3|An etching showing the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh before it was demolished in 1817. thumb|upright=1.3|Musselburgh Tolbooth in [[East Lothian]] thumb|upright=1.3|Crail Tolbooth and Town Hall|Crail Tolbooth in [[Fife]] A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century. The tolbooth usually provided a council meeting chamber, a court house and a jail. The tolbooth was one of three essential features in a Scottish burgh, along with the mercat cross and the kirk (church).
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thumb|upright=1.3|An etching showing the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh before it was demolished in 1817. thumb|upright=1.3|Musselburgh Tolbooth in [[East Lothian]] thumb|upright=1.3|Crail Tolbooth and Town Hall|Crail Tolbooth in [[Fife]]
A tolbooth or town house was the main municipal building of a Scottish burgh, from medieval times until the 19th century. The tolbooth usually provided a council meeting chamber, a court house and a jail. The tolbooth was one of three essential features in a Scottish burgh, along with the mercat cross and the kirk (church).