Where Am I? No. 134 - Little Bridge

[hepburn]

What about this one.......Is the house you see a bit in this photo , the lighter bits in the old photo....If that makes sense!


http://www.francisfrith.com/dalehead-crags/dalehead-grange-hall-bridge-1921_71216

[arthurk]

The original bridge has a very even "inner" arch.  On the Elterwater bridge, the "inner" arch has stone of random lengths.

By "inner" arch, I mean the lower course of stones.

EDIT: I see jennywren001 has just said the same thing.

You both make a valid point. Anyway, as well as the bridge I was thinking about the hillside beyond, and while I may have been wrong with Elterwater, I wonder if it would be easier to identify that than the actual bridge?

[Barbara.H]

What about this one.......Is the house you see a bit in this photo , the lighter bits in the old photo....If that makes sense!
http://www.francisfrith.com/dalehead-crags/dalehead-grange-hall-bridge-1921_71216

I like this one too. I kept coming back to it when I was looking for this little bridge and also WAI 176 (the one with a weir). 

The Francis Frith site have linked this photo to the wrong Dalehead however. Dale Head in Cumbria is near Great Gable, which this background hill certainly isn't.

The Dalehead where Grange Hall Bridge stood was part of the Hodder Valley area (Bowland, Lancashire) that was flooded to create the Stocks reservoir
http://www.dalehead.org/grange_hall.htm
Scroll down to the bridge photo, supplied by a former Dalehead resident. Very interesting website.

I think it was Trishanne who mentioned the similarity to packhorse bridges in Bowland, very early on in the thread  Quite difficult to find evidence for a bridge that was flooded under 100 feet of water though!

  Barbara

[Trishanne]

The water seems to be very shallow the side facing us on our bridge, with just some gravel banks showing. There is no sign of any rocks.
I am still wondering if it is the outfall of a lake.
Pat

[cazza59]

Since looking at a couple of the others that have been found, I'm more inclined to think Scotland.  Mike and a couple of other people are extremely familiar with the Lake District, so I would have thought that perhaps it would have been recognised by them by now if it was indeed the LD. Of course, I am only assuming and you know what that does don't you….. 

[Mike in Cumbria]

Since looking at a couple of the others that have been found, I'm more inclined to think Scotland.  Mike and a couple of other people are extremely familiar with the Lake District, so I would have thought that perhaps it would have been recognised by them by now if it was indeed the LD. Of course, I am only assuming and you know what that does don't you….. 

The trouble is that there are so many little stone bridges like this. I see more and more every time I go out for  a drive or a walk, all of them very similar in design. It could well be here in the Lakes (or in Scotland, or the Yorkshire Dales) and I might have seen it many times, but I can't quite make it fit any of the ones I have seen.

Mike

[jennywren001]

Getting well excited here...I've taken the image below and place it over the original and in my mind the hillsides can be lined up. This bridge was mentioned before it crosses the River Almond in the Sma Glen. Hubbie says I'm making it fit! Could someone else please have a look.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton_Bridge_in_the_Sma_Glen_-_geograph.org.uk_-_920595.jpg

Jen

[Spidermonkey]

Gosh, that does look similar, doesn't it!  I would query the height from the apex of the arch to the top of the bridge - on the original photo, I think that the apex of the arch is closer to the top of the bridge than on Newton Bridge.  But then, that might be to do with scale, and angle of photo etc 

[Ruskie]

 Think t looks really close Jen. Taken from a slightly different angle and a different season, but still very close.    I really hope you are right.