Yorkshire Bridge
| Yorkshire Bridge | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Yorkshire Bridge Public House | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK197849 |
| Location: | 53°21’40"N, 1°42’14"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Hope Valley |
| Postcode: | S33 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | High Peak |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
High Peak |
Yorkshire Bridge is a small hamlet in the Peak District, by the River Derwent just below the Ladybower Reservoir in northern Derbyshire. It stands just 500 yards south of the dam of the Ladybower Reservoir, and a mile and a half east of the border of Yorkshire, marked here by Stanage Edge. Bamford and Thornhill and villages a mile to the south, downstream on the Derwent.
The people who built the Ladybower Dam lived in the houses at Yorkshire Bridge. It also resettled those displaced by the villages drowned by the new reservoir; Ashopton and Derwent.
About the village
The village is named after a packhorse bridge, which crosses the River Derwent to the south of the dam and north of the village of Thornhill.
The hamlet has also given its name to a public house on the nearby A6013 road that is popular with walkers.
The Derwent Valley Heritage Way has its northern terminus in the woods overlooking the reservoir.