Doctor Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1985. Bridge.
Doctor Bridge
- WRENN ID
- idle-rampart-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1985
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Doctor Bridge, Eskdale, Cumberland
- OS grid reference
- NY 189 007
- Coordinates
- 54.39562, -3.24992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doctor Bridge is a packhorse bridge that has been converted into a road bridge. It likely dates from the 17th century and was widened in 1734 to accommodate Edward Tyson, a surgeon, and his horse-drawn carriage. The bridge is constructed of snecked rubble and features a single segmental arch that spans approximately 30 feet. The roadway is about 9 feet wide, with a straight joint to the arch soffit indicating that the original bridge on the south side was around 6 feet wide. The parapet stands 3 feet high.
Local climate
Doctor Bridge sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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