Wharton Bridge

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Wharton Bridge
Cumberland
Packhorse Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 127538.jpg
Wharton Bridge
Location
Type: Packhorse bridge
Crossing: River Ive
Location
Grid reference: NY4166643062
Location: 54°46’45"N, 2°54’30"W
Structure
Type: Packhorse bridge
History
Information

Wharton Bridge is a narrow, single-arched humpback packhorse bridge over the River Ive in Cumberland, joining Ivegill with Skelton. Today it serves as a footbridge carrying a footpath between the two villages.

The bridge was built in the early eighteenth century, and it constructed of mixed sandstone rubble, with a solid, irregular rubble parapet. The bridge is a Grade II listed structure.[1]

References

  1. National Heritage List 1326713: Wharton Bridge