Threepenny bit house
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Image: © Richard Croft Taken: 1 Mar 2014
Six-sided former toll house on Littleborough Road, known locally as 'Threepenny bit house' .... an erroneous reference to the pre-decimal threepenny coin which had 12 sides. Now called Littleborough Cottage. It was built by the Retford & Littleborough Turnpike Trust c1825 for the turnpike road that ran from Spittle Hill in Retford to the chain ferry across the River Trent at Littleborough. The original plan to build a bridge at Littleborough was abandoned due to engineering difficulties and expansion of the railway network and opening of the bridges at Dunham and Gainsborough brought about the demise of Littleborough Ferry which closed in 1910.
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