| Birks Bridge | |
| Crosses: | River Duddon |
| Locale: | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite, Cumbria, England |
| Coordinates: | 54.3838°N -3.1807°W |
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 .
The bridge was built around the 18th century, with voussoirs and inbuilt drainage, and became a listed building in 1990.
Birks Bridge is a packhorse bridge of outstanding beauty, even for Lakeland.[1] 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".[2] Wainwright considered this a tribute to the artistry of craftsmen of former times.[3]
. Hunter Davies . A Walk Around the Lakes . Arrow Books . 1989 . 68 . 0099504804.
. Alfred Wainwright . Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland . Michael Joseph . 1996 . 106 . 0718134885.