This beautifully produced book is profusely illustrated with over 170 black and white photographs, is A4 size format, hard back.
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Ever since ancient times man has been required to traverse the bleak mountainous regions of the North of England to barter or sell his wares, his animals; cattle, oxen, sheep and goats. Man has also moved his cattle on to better pastures, for the well-being of himself and his family depended on the milk, meat, hides and bones. Therefore, to enable him to live more profitably, man constructed bridges across the numerous fast flowing mountain streams and becks. Many of the pathways over the mountains and hills of Northern England had been trod by ancient Britons and also Roman soldiers.
All over the North of England where the Jaggermen’s trails came down from the tops of the hills to the many rivers and becks, these water courses would be crossed by old wooden bridges or by ancient fords. However, where the banks were too steep, then a steeply humped, single-arched bridge would be constructed. Many of these specifically designed bridges were built particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the accentuated curvature of the arches allowing high levels of flood water to flow beneath. The majority of these packhorse bridges when first built either had no parapets or had extremely low ones to allow the heavily ladened Jaggermen’s packhorse trains to pass over without hindrance.
The majority of the surviving packhorse bridges of Northern England are to be found in the wilds of Cumbria, North Yorkshire, particularly in the Dales, and the South Pennine regions of West Yorkshire and East Lancashire.
This book features:
| Beggars Bridge – Glaisdale | Duck Bridge |
| Hunter’s Sty Bridge | Romanby Bridge |
| Stokesley Packhorse Bridge | World’s End Bridge |
| Nidderdale Packhorse Trains | Birstwith New Bridge |
| Hampsthwaite Bridge | Cockhill Beck Packhorse Bridge |
| Thornthwaite Bridge | Wath Bridge |
| Hubberholme Bridge, Langstrothdale | Yockenthwaite Bridge |
| Crook Gill Bridge, Hubberholme | Cray Bridge, Nr. Buckden |
| Linton Packhorse Bridge | Little Emily’s Bridge, Linton |
| Malham Bridges | Hanlith Packhorse Bridge |
| Clapham Bridge | Stainforth Bridge |
| Thorns Gill Bridge, Gearstones | Ling Gill Bridge |
| West Burton Bridge | Ivelet Bridge |
| Raven Seat Bridge | Addingham Packhorse Bridges |
| Dob Park Packhorse Bridge | Ilkley Old Bridge |
| Donkey Bridge, Oxenhope | Long Packhorse Bridge |
| Lumbfoot Packhorse Bridge | Foster Mill Bridge, Hebden Bridge |
| Lumb Bridge, Crimsworth Dene | Hebble Hole Bridge, Colden Clough |
| Jumble Hole Clough Clam Bridge | Lower Strines Packhorse Bridge, Colden Water |
| Hippins Clough Clam Bridge | Close Gate Packhorse Bridge |
| Marsden Town Bridge ‘Mellor Bridge’ | Holme Ends Packhorse Bridge, Alcomden Walshaw Dene |
| Hudson Packhorse Bridge | Mount Cross |
| Beckfoot Packhorse Bridge, Bingley | Oxygrains Packhorse Bridge |
| Newsholme Dene Cantilever Bridge | Wycoller Packhorse, Clam and Clapper Bridge, Wycoller |
| Hodder Packhorse Bridge or Cromwell’s Bridge | Higherford Old Packhorse Bridge |
| Catlow Packhorse Bottoms | Cadshaw Packhorse Bridge |
| Bleasdale Packhorse Bridge, Oakenclough | Monks Packhorse Bridge |
| Saddle Bridge or Fairy Packhorse Bridge | Longholme Packhorse Bridge, Rawtenstall |
| Croston Town Packhorse Bridge | Prestolee Packhorse Bridge, Prestolee |
| Lad Hill Packhorse Bridge, Greenfield | Barbon Packhorse Bridge |
| Cowgill Packhorse Bridge | Frank’s Packhorse Bridge |
| Stock High Packhorse Bridge or Old Mill Bridge | High Sweden Packhorse Bridge |
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