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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Thomas George

Life in the Greater Manchester village where you pay 12p to get in and out

A driver winds down his window and drops 12p into a metal bucket.

The toll booth attendant waves his hand and the car trundles across a bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal. It's a scene that has been played out in Warburton for more than 125 years.

Home to no more than 300 people, the tiny village - on the border of Cheshire and Trafford - is best known for its controversial toll bridge. The only route across the River Mersey and Manchester Ship Canal between the M6 and M60 motorways, thousands of drivers cross the Warburton Toll Bridge every day.

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