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Dauber Bridge, Cragg Vale - TWA00214
DAUBER BRIDGE is in Cragg Vale just past Hoo Hole where the road from Mytholmroyd turns half left over the bridge. It is a single-arch stone bridge crossing the Cragg Brook (Cragg Brook is the modern name.)
Copley Bridge - TWA00213
COPLEY BRIDGE is a stone bridge of two spans crossing the River Calder. There was a toll bar here until 1856, the bridge and road up into the wood being privately owned. Until a few years ago a board showing the various amounts of toll payable was…
Clifton Bridge, Brighouse - TWA00211
CLIFTON BRIDGE carries the road from Brighouse over Clifton Beck and is mentioned at least three times in the West riding Quarter Sessions Records. In 1445 is the entry ‘Brighouse tenants to repair the way between Brighouse and Clifton brig.’ The…
Clark Bridge, Halifax - TWA00210
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…
Callis Bridge, Todmorden - TWA00208
Callis is the name of a place on the slopes of Erringden. It was named as ‘Calys’ as early as 1375. A deed dated 1604 has reference to ‘one small close adjoining the Hebble called Callishebble.’ The district is approached by the bridge over the…
Bridge over the Calder at Greetland, Nr Halifax - TWA00207
CALDER BRIDGE near the former Greetland Station spans the Calder and was built in the turnpike days.
Calder Bridge, Brighouse - TWA00206
BRIGHOUSE CALDER BRIDGE. In 1823 an Act of Parliament sanctioned the making and maintenance of a turnpike road from Wibsey Bank Foot through Brighouse to Huddersfield. The stone bridge over the Calder at the site of the ancient ford from Snake Hill…
BREARLEY BRIDGE - TWA00205
BREARLEY BRIDGE is a single-arch saddle-back stone bridge thought to date from the mid 18th century. An inn, the Mill Inn, later the Clarence Inn, once stood on the Brearley side of the bridge. There was a bridge there in the seventeenth century as…
Booth Dean Bridge, Rishworth - TWA00204
BOOTH DEAN BRIDGE, Rishworth, is a single-arch stone bridge in Booth Dean, carrying the road across the valley to Ripponden and Ringstone Reservoir
Bridge at Blake Dean near Hebden Bridge - TWA00203
BLAKE DEAN BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge. Just downstream from the present structure there used to be a wooden trestle bridge erected when the three Walshaw Dean reservoirs were being constructed. It was 700 feet long and 105 feet high, and…
Broad Lee Bridge, Dean Head Valley - TWA00199
This bridge is now submerged under Scammonden Dam
Upper Mill Bridge, Dean Head Valley - TWA00198
This bridge is now submerged under Scammonden Dam
Eastwood Bridge, Dean Head Valley - TWA00197
This bridge is now submerged under Scammonden Dam
Stubbing Clough footbridge, Dean Head Valley - TWA00196
This bridge is now submerged under Scammonden Dam
Broad Lee Bridge, Dean Head Valley - TWA00195
This bridge is now submerged under Scammonden Dam
