Beggars Bridge Over River Esk is a Grade II* listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. Bridge.
Beggars Bridge Over River Esk
- WRENN ID
- bitter-lead-soot
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1969
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Beggars Bridge Over River Esk, Egton, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- NZ 784 054
- Coordinates
- 54.43866, -0.79213
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beggar's Bridge over the River Esk is a bridge built in 1619, featuring the arms of Thomas Ferris of Hull, who constructed it. The bridge is made of roughly-coursed large sandstone and has a single deep segmental arch with voussoirs and an arch ring. It has a peaked parapet with chamfered coping that extends only over the arch. The paved roadway is 6½ feet wide and is situated between coped abutments on either side.
Local climate
Beggars Bridge Over River Esk receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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