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Turnpike cottage "still standing"?

"The turnpike cottage is still standing" [on the Bwlch (north) side of the river Usk] "and was purchased from the Beaufort estate in 1915 by the family of one of the earliest toll-keepers". Well, no it isn't still standing. Or at least I can't see it, and there seems to be only one documentary source claiming its existence.

There is no cottage visible on the ground at either end of the bridge.

Current Ordnance Survey Master Map shows no building at either end of the bridge.

The CADW historic monument listing for the bridge does not mention a turnpike cottage.

The Ordnance Survey 1904 edition 25-inch map shows no building at either end of the bridge, so if there was a toll house there it had gone by 1903 when the surveying was done (12 years before the cottage was reportedly sold, though I can't find a mention of it in the 1915 Beaufort Estate sale catalogue).

OS 1904 map: https://maps.nls.uk/view/135191179#zoom=6&lat=10838&lon=11081&layers=BT

The tollhouses.org.uk register has found evidence for two toll houses in the village, one on Castle Street near the Red Lion and one on "Forge Road over the canal" (not the river) which it categorises as "lost".

Any online references I can find for the existence of a cottage all track back to this Wikipedia article.

This article cites the book "Martin Wibberley, ed. (2000). Shadows in a landscape. Llangynidr Local History Society. p. 227. ISBN 0953877817" as a source for the claim. Does anyone out there have access to a copy of the book to confirm this, and confirm where the book got its evidence from?

I'm not saying the statement is wrong, just that as the cottage is (it seems) invisible in real life and doesn't appear on current or historic maps, it would be nice to have a more solid citation for its existence. Electricmonk111 (talk) 22:04, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's a house of some age up the hill from the bridge on Forge Road. Maybe that is it? Though I would have expected a toll or turnpike house to be right up against the road (which this one isn't). Sionk (talk) 22:29, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]