Brick bridge over Bedale Beck
Introduction
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Brick bridge over Bedale Beck
Image: © Matthew Hatton Taken: 10 Jan 2014
This part of Bedale Beck is known as Main Cut, this was down to it being part of the proposed Bedale Navigation. A grand scheme to link Bedale with the Swale, Ure & Ouse in the late 18thC, the work began at Bedale building a stone lined dock and the beck was straighten, here there was a lock built, the large stone wall is part of it, there are slots for the lock gates hidden under the ivy. However the scheme went bust, the gates were never built and the local mill owner built this brick bridge over the beck to link to Bedale market. The timber pailling is part of the Sustrans improvements to the bridleway.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.29815
Longitude
-1.559598