Metal Bridge, Cumberland

Metal Bridge
Cumberland
Metal Bridge Inn
Location
Grid reference:	NY356648
Location:	54°58’26"N, 3°0’19"W
Data
Post town:	Carlisle
Postcode:	CA6
Dialling code:	01228
Local Government
Council:	Cumberland
Parliamentary constituency:	Carlisle

Metal Bridge is a small settlement in Cumberland between Carlisle and Gretna, across the county boundary in [Dumfriesshire]], formerly on the main A74 road.

The settlement consists of a few properties clustered around a public house (now a restaurant) of the same name, on the south bank of the River Esk.

The settlement and pub (and nearby forest plantation) derive their name from the Thomas Telford designed metal bridge that spanned the river at this point on the road to Scotland.

The M6 motorway extension opened in December 2008 and bypasses the village, replacing the A74 road dual carriageway as the main route across the plain into Eskdale.

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