County Bridge
Introduction
The photograph on this page of County Bridge by Andy Waddington as part of the Geograph project.
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County Bridge
Image: © Andy Waddington Taken: 14 Jan 2007
Despite considerable rebuilding work, Barnard Castle's main crossing point for the River Tees still has a camera-enforced weight restriction which often causes chaos in the town as an HGV finds that it has to reverse away from the bridge to make a laborious three-point turn in the crowded streets. It is widely known as the "County" Bridge since the river used to be the border between county Durham (photographer's side in this view) and Yorkshire. The 1974 boundary revisions moved that county divide to the south, to the watershed between Teesdale and Swaledale.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.54266
Longitude
-1.927629