Beckfoot Lane packhorse bridge
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Beckfoot Lane packhorse bridge
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 12 Oct 2019
This bridge over the Harden Beck erected in 1723 (with an earlier ford adjacent) would not originally have had fencing at the side - a modern safety measure. The bridge is listed grade II (list entry 1199392). According to one source* it was on "the main highway from Scotland and Cumberland, through Craven to the South of England" used in pre-Reformation times by the monks of Rievaulx Abbey to reach their ironworks at Harden, and was built by two named masons, Ben Craven and Joshua Scott. * "The bridges of Lancashire and Yorkshire", Margaret Slack, Robert Hale 1986, pp. 25-26.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.842192
Longitude
-1.842058