Birks Bridge is a traditional stone-built bridge over the River Duddon in the English Lake District, in Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, standing at Grid Reference .
History and construction
The bridge was built around the 18th century, with voussoirs and inbuilt drainage, and became a listed building in 1990.
Aspect
Birks Bridge is a packhorse bridge of outstanding beauty, even for Lakeland. Hunter Davies described how "the hump-back stone bridge seems itself to be a work of nature, blending and melding so well with the rocks either side". Wainwright considered this a tribute to the artistry of craftsmen of former times.
See also
Listed buildings in Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite
Ashness Bridge
Harter Fell (Eskdale) Slater's Bridge