Yorkshire Bridge Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:53.361°N -1.704°W
Map Type:Derbyshire
Official Name:Yorkshire Bridge
Shire District:High Peak
Shire County:Derbyshire
Region:East Midlands
Post Town:HOPE VALLEY
Postcode District:S33
Postcode Area:S
Os Grid Reference:SK197849
Static Image Name:Yorkshire Bridge Inn - geograph.org.uk - 868857.jpg
Static Image Caption:Yorkshire Bridge Public House

Yorkshire Bridge is a small hamlet at near the Ladybower Reservoir dam in the English county of Derbyshire.[1] Administratively the area forms part of the civil parish of Bamford and the district of High Peak. The people who built the Ladybower Dam wall lived in the houses at Yorkshire Bridge.[2]

The settlement is named after a packhorse bridge, which crosses the River Derwent to the south of the dam of the Ladybower Reservoir from which the river has emerged and north of the village of Thornhill.

It 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.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Eardley, Denis . Villages of the Peak District . 2010-01-15 . Amberley Publishing Limited . 978-1-4456-3191-2 . en.
  2. Web site: Yorkshire Bridge and Ladybower Reservoir - Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District . 2023-03-21 . www.derbyshire-peakdistrict.co.uk.