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Toll Bar Cottage

cottage in Eden, Cumbria, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ26612339 ↗
Source-derived summary

Toll Bar Cottage is a 17th-century grade II listed cottage on Cross Street in Castleton, Derbyshire.

History

The Toll Bar was used as a tollhouse on the Chapel-en-le-Frith to Sheffield turnpike c. 1810. Today the building houses a gift shop, selling the local Blue John crystal.

The building, including the attached railings, has been Grade II listed since 24 September 1984.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Toll Bar Cottage” is cottage in Eden, Cumbria, England, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Toll, Cottage and cottage, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1810, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Toll, Cottage and cottage is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26612339. Authority coordinates are 54.654, -2.743. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1810 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Toll Bar Cottage” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.