Catterick Bridge

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Catterick Bridge
Yorkshire
North Riding

The old Catterick Bridge across the Swale
Location
Grid reference: SE227992
Location: 54°23’19"N, 1°38’58"W
Data
Postcode: DL10
Local Government
Council: North Yorkshire

Catterick Bridge is a hamlet in the North Riding of Yorkshire about a mile north of Catterick, at the south end of Catterick road bridge.

The hamlet includes Catterick Racecourse and a few houses. The Sunday market, held at the racecourse, was once the largest of its kind in Northern England.[1] After declining fortunes, the market closed in 2016.[2][3]

The former Bridge House Hotel currently stands derelict after a fire destroyed a vast majority of the Grade-II listed building[4] in 2014. There had been a coaching inn at this site since at least the 16th century.[5] After several attempts to auction the property, it was removed from the market in October 2020 due to lack of interest.[6]

Charles Macintosh, the inventor of the Mackintosh raincoat, Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford were educated at Catterick Bridge.[7][8]

References

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  1. "Catterick Sunday Market". http://www.cattericksundaymarket.co.uk/. Retrieved 10 December 2007. 
  2. "Catterick Sunday Market is struggling but will continue, organisers say". https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14246346.catterick-sunday-market-struggling-will-continue-organisers-say/. 
  3. Willis, Joe (9 May 2017). "Meet Mark the Meat Man". https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/meet-mark-meat-man/. 
  4. National Heritage List 1318300: Catterick Bridge
  5. "Catterick hotel destroyed by fire". https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11007346.catterick-hotel-destroyed-fire/. 
  6. Willis, Joe (30 October 2020). "Fire-damaged landmark hotel removed from auction due to lack of interest". https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/fire-damaged-landmark-hotel-removed-from-auction-due-to-lack-of-interest/. 
  7. J. K. Laughton, 'Beresford, Sir John Poo, first baronet (1766–1844)', rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 April 2011
  8. Gordon L. Teffeteller, 'Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford (1768–1854)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2011 accessed 30 April 2011