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9. The Beggars Bridge Glaisdale
The packhorse 'Beggar's Bridge' at Glaisdale, medieval in origin (probably 14th C) and rebuilt in the early 17th Century about 1620 by Alderman Thomas Ferris/Firris/Ferries of Hull.
The 'Beggars Bridge' seen from underneath the railway bridge near Glaisdale station on the Middlesbrough-Whitby line. The modern road bridge is in the background.
Prehistoric and historic sites appear in the 'archaeological' landscape there are many historic and ancient churches and other buildings in these towns and villages rich in history in and around the moorland stretching back over 1000 years as well as the tumuli (burial mounds,howes) megalithic standing stone alignments of over 4000 years of very ancient prehistory archaeology in North Yorkshire |
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