Bridgeyate House

historybuff, on August 9, 2007, said:

Until the 1920’s Bridgeyate was the boundary of Siston Parish and probably in ancient times a gate stood by the breaches (a nearby field) or Breaches-gate.

This name has since evolved into Bridgeyate. The toll house opposite The Griffin had by 1963 not been used for its original purpose for a long time and has become part of the area’s folklore as ‘Miss Bence’s Shop’. This was a little shop full of wonderful delights, sweets, soap, polish, peas, you name it and it was there — somewhere! Unfortunately, in later years it had the unsavoury distinction of being the place where you didn’t buy meat.

In these modern days of refrigerated food cases and the like, the Health Inspector would have had a fit!

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