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Pitsmoor Toll Bar House, Barnsley Road/Burngreave Road / Pitsmoor Road

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Pitsmoor Toll Bar House, Barnsley Road/Burngreave Road / Pitsmoor Road
Sheffield_Pitsmoor
1900-1919

Burngreave Road ends at the site of the old Toll Bar. Continuing into Barnsley Road towards Firs Hill: Left hand side of of the road (behind the wall) is the old road and is Pitsmoor Road, from Shirecliffe Lane to Orphanage Road.; the right hand side from Abbeyfield Park is Barnsley Road. Toll Bar built 1836 with gates that swung across Pitsmoor Road and Burngreave Road replacing the earlier one of 1759; closed and gates removed 1876. For sketch of tollbar before before the gates were removed see Newspaper Cuttings Ref: 942.74 S, Vol. 10 page 229

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