Birks Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 54°23′02″N 3°10′50″W / 54.38383°N 3.18069°W |
Crosses | River Duddon |
Locale | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, England |
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Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Birks Bridge |
Designated | 05-Mar-1990 |
Reference no. | 1086826 |
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Birks Bridge is a traditional stone-built bridge over the River Duddon in the English Lake District, in Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, standing at Grid Reference SD239995.
The bridge was built around the 18th century, with voussoirs and inbuilt drainage, and became a listed building in 1990. [1]
Birks Bridge is a packhorse bridge of outstanding beauty, even for Lakeland. [2] Hunter Davies described how "the hump-back stone bridge seems itself to be a work of nature, blending and melding so well with the rocks either side". [3] Wainwright considered this a tribute to the artistry of craftsmen of former times. [4]
Birks Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 54°23′02″N 3°10′50″W / 54.38383°N 3.18069°W |
Crosses | River Duddon |
Locale | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, England |
Statistics | |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Birks Bridge |
Designated | 05-Mar-1990 |
Reference no. | 1086826 |
Location | |
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Birks Bridge is a traditional stone-built bridge over the River Duddon in the English Lake District, in Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, standing at Grid Reference SD239995.
The bridge was built around the 18th century, with voussoirs and inbuilt drainage, and became a listed building in 1990. [1]
Birks Bridge is a packhorse bridge of outstanding beauty, even for Lakeland. [2] Hunter Davies described how "the hump-back stone bridge seems itself to be a work of nature, blending and melding so well with the rocks either side". [3] Wainwright considered this a tribute to the artistry of craftsmen of former times. [4]