The Bridge, High St, Pateley Bridge, N Yorks, UK
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bill&ben
N 54° 05.146 W 001° 45.657
30U E 581050 N 5993774
A plaque on the western parapet of the bridge.
Waymark Code: WMWTXN
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/14/2017
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There has been a ford on this site since the earliest times with the earliest mention of a bridge in 1320. The low narrow wooden bridge was replaced by a stone version in the 18thcentury and widened early in the 19th.
The plaque reads
“Pateley Bridge.
Site of a very early ford. the original 14th century wooden bridge was replaced by a stone bridge in the 18th century”