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Title: Clark Bridge, Halifax - TWA00210
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Title
Clark Bridge, Halifax - TWA00210
Description
CLARK BRIDGE crosses the Hebble Brook below Halifax Parish Church. Watson wrote in 1775 that this bridge ‘seems to have been first built by the clergy, or clerks, for the convenience of passing from the church, either to their habitations, or some place set apart for religious exercises; the latter is more probable, as there was a spring in the opposite bank called Holy-well.’ Warburton in 1720 described Clark Bridge as follows: ‘To Clark Beck over a Stone Bridge, 1 arch, ye same Beck which comes across 37 last Survey, it bends upward, Eastward.’ In olden days the pinfold was near Clark Bridge, and John Lister once said that in former times Clark Bridge was more important than North Bridge, Halifax and Southowram townships jointly maintained this bridge. After the stone bridge there was an iron bridge, work on which began on June 6th, 1868. The present ferro-concrete structure was built in 1917.
Creator
Tom Walker
Source
Olwen Forest
Date
1960 , 1960s
Rights
PHDA - Tom Walker Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
TWA00210.tif
Collection
Citation
Tom Walker, “Clark Bridge, Halifax - TWA00210,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 29, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/24597.
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