Scampston Bridge

Scampston Bridge is a bridge built around 1775 and widened in 1933. It was likely designed by Capability Brown or Henry Holland for Sir William St Quintin, 5th Baronet. The upstream side features red brick in English garden wall bond with a sandstone parapet and dressings, while the downstream side is made of sandstone ashlar. The bridge has cast-iron railings and three semi-circular spans, with the central span being taller, supported by abutments. The upstream arches consist of ashlar blocks separated by pilaster piers with tooled stone imposts, topped with a flat cornice that rakes up over the abutments and flanking arches. The downstream arches are adorned with block rusticated archivolts. Alternately-rusticated pilaster piers flank the bridge, while the abutment piers are plain. The bridge cornice is dentilled, and the abutment cornices are plain and raked similarly to the upstream side. The parapets are balustraded over the arches and feature cambered coping, with alternately wavy and stick railings over the abutments. The square-section alternately-rusticated piers have pyramidal caps.

On the road sides of the piers flanking the central arches, inscriptions indicate distances: the upstream side reads "MALTON 6 MILES LONDON 222 MILES," and the downstream side states "YORK 24 MILES SCARBOROUGH 16 MILES." A plaque over the central arch on the downstream side records the date of widening. The west pier on the upstream side was demolished at the time of resurvey. The bridge was designed to be a feature visible from Scampston Hall, which was laid out by Capability Brown. Beneath the bridge, a weir controls the flow of water from the Swan Beck into the lake.