Category: Egton Bridge
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Barnaby Toll Road: Even the Dead Paid to Pass
A gravel track on a baking summer day runs through lush green verges high with cow parsley and nettles. To the left stands Toll Cottage, an 18th-century stone building with a terracotta pantile roof and a weather vane on its gable. Before tarmac, before bypasses, before anyone thought roads should be free, there was Barnard’s…
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Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show
Not even a war has stopped the Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show from being held during this first week in August. Until 2020 came along with the Coronavirus. Every year since 1800, the contestants have dedicated the whole year to the growing of the biggest goosegogs possible. A one way system operated around the table where…