Courtesy of Stephen Read, Levens Local History Society
All the bridges are Grade II listed except Bridge House (Lakes Parish – Ambleside) which is Grade I, and Slaters Bridge (Coniston and Lakes – Langdale Parishes), Bridge over Rydall Beck at Rydal Hall (Lakes -Rydal & Loughrigg Parish), and Newby Bridge (Staveley in Cartmel Parish) which are all Grade II*.
You can find out more about them – a description, location, maps and photos if available – on the British Listed Buildings website (search by county and then parish) or on the National Heritage List for England (search by name).
Stone bridges built before 1700 and still surviving in Cumbria are listed, described and photographed in the Historic Bridges of Britain website.
Parish | Bridge |
Above Derwent Parish | Stair Bridge |
Askham Parish | Askham Bridge |
Bampton Parish | Naddle Old Bridge |
Church Bridge, Bampton Grange | |
Halfa Bridge, Bomby | |
Barton Parish | Pooley Bridge |
Blawith Parish | Bouthray Bridge |
Blindbothel Parish | Lorton Low Bridge, Low Lorton |
Blindcrake Parish | Ouse Bridge |
Isel Bridge | |
Borrowdale Parish | Ashness Bridge |
Grange Bridge | |
Rosthwaite Bridge | |
Stockley Bridge | |
Folly Bridge | |
Watendlath Packhorse Bridge | |
Broughton West Parish (Duddon) | Hawk Bridge |
Water Yeat Bridge | |
Shopbridge, Broughton Mills | |
Duddon Bridge | |
Wreaks Causeway End Bridge | |
Caldbeck Parish | Church Bridge |
Hesket Bridge | |
Cartmel Fell Parish | Winster Bridge |
Birks Bridge | |
Claife Parish | Bridge 30m north of barn at Low Wray Farm |
Cunsey Bridge | |
Colton Parish | Bouthray Bridge, Nibthwaite |
Rusland Pool Bridge | |
Coniston Parish | Slaters Bridge |
Pierce How Bridge, Tilberthwaite | |
Shepherd’s Bridge, Tilberthwaite | |
Crook Parish | Packhorse Bridge beside A5074 |
Crosthwaite and Lyth Parish | Footbridge west of Dodds How |
Lords Bridge, Totterbank | |
Birks Bridge, Winster | |
Bridge east of Lyth Valley Hotel | |
Dacre Parish | High Bridge, Dacre |
Dacre Bridge, Dalemain | |
Pooley Bridge | |
Dunnerdale with Seathwaite Parish | Birks Bridge |
Seathwaite Bridge | |
Ulpha Bridge | |
Rawfold Bridge | |
Egton with Newland Parish | Penny Bridge |
Embleton, Setmurthy & Wythop Parishes | Ouse Bridge |
Isel Bridge | |
Ennerdale & Kinniside Parish | Monks Bridge |
Eskdale Parish | Doctor Bridge |
Fawcett Forest Parish | Crookdale Bridge |
Bannisdale Low Bridge | |
Bannisdale High Bridge | |
Borrowdale Head Bridge | |
Hucks Bridge (A6) | |
High Borrow Bridge | |
Crookdale Low Bridge | |
Haverthwaite Parish | Low Wood Bridge |
Backbarrow Bridge | |
Hawkshead Parish | Footbridge north of former Bobbin Mill |
Irton with Santon Parish | Craghouse Bridge |
Keswick Parish | Forge Bridge, Brigham |
Lakes Parish (Ambleside) | Low Sweden Bridge |
High Sweden Bridge | |
Miller Bridge | |
Rothay Bridge | |
Bridge House | |
Lakes Parish (Grasmere) | Bridge beside St Oswald’s Churchj |
Willy Goodwaller Bridge | |
Lakes Parish (Langdales) | Elterwater Bridge |
Slaters Bridge | |
Lakes Parish (Rydal & Loughrigg) | Miller Bridge |
Rothay Bridge | |
Pelter Bridge | |
Bridge over Rydal Beck (Rydal Hall) | |
Skelwith Bridge | |
Longsleddale Parish | Bridge over River Sprint SE of Nether House |
Sadgill Bridge | |
Lorton Parish | Lorton Low Bridge |
Boonbeck Bridge, High Lorton | |
Pelter Bridge | |
Bridge over Rydal Beck (Rydal Hall) | |
Skelwith Bridge | |
Longsleddale Parish | Bridge over River Sprint SE of Nether House |
Sadgill Bridge | |
Lorton Parish | Lorton Low Bridge |
Boonbeck Bridge, High Lorton | |
Lowther Parish | Askhamn Bridge |
Martindale Parishj | Christy Bridge |
Bridge NE of Howtown House | |
Matterdale Parish | Calley Bridge |
Millom Without Parish | Rawfold Bridge NE of Duddon Hall |
Duddon Bridge | |
Mungrisdale Parish | Mosedale Bridge |
Bridge over River Glenderamackin, Southerfell | |
Nether Wasdale | Row Bridge, north of hotel |
Over Staveley Parish | Barley Bridge |
Patterdale Parish | Cow Bridge |
Pasture Beck Bridge, Low Hartsop | |
Shap Rural Parish | Parish Crag Bridge |
Bridge over River Lowther, Rosgill | |
Staveley in Cartmel Parish | Newby Bridge |
St Johns, Castlerigg and Wythburn | Ashness Bridge |
Bridge NW of Bram Crag | |
Strickland Roger Parish | Garnett Bridge |
Threlkeld Parish | Dobsons Bridge |
Underbarrow and Bradleyfield Parish | Bridge to west of Beckside Farmhouse |
Upper Allithwaite Parish | Wilson House Bridge |
Bleacrag Bridge | |
Whitwell and Selside Parish | Garnett Bridge |
Witherslack, Meathop & Ulpha Parish | Bleacrag Bridge |
Bridge over drainage ditch at SD449811 | |
Wilson House Bridge | |
Bridge NE of Cragg Cottage |
The following buildings are Scheduled Ancient Monuments:
Parish | Bridge | Location |
Askham/Bampton Parishes | Bridge over Heltondale Beck, 170m S of Widewath | NY502208 |
Bridge over Heltondale Beck, 230m SSW of Widewath | NY501200 | |
Bampton Parish | Stone bridge, Cawdale Beck | NY496178 |
Colton Parish | Newby Bridge | SD369863 |
Drigg & Carleton Parish | Drigg Holme packhorse bridge | SD077988 |
Ennerdale and Kinniside Parish | Monks Bridge | NY063103 |
(Page created 12/09/13)