8 Pitch and Pay Lane, Bristol
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8 Pitch and Pay Lane, Bristol
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 20 Jun 2018
Rarer than hen's teeth, a decent post-war housing development. By R. Towning Hill and SPAN, begun in 1963 and enlarged later in the 1960s. "Of traditional construction but with the first floors jettied out on reinforced concrete beams, the ends left exposed." A sign explains the likely origins of the road name: "in the seventeenth century a wooden stile at the end of the lane leading from Stoke Bishop to the Downs was on the line of the boundary between plague-infested Bristol and the countryside around Westbury-on-Trym. It is supposed that villagers brought produce to the stile and pitched it over to the townspeople, who threw back their coins in payment."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.474598
Longitude
-2.631601