Old Oxygrains Bridge, Nr Rishworth, West Yorkshire

I occasionally go to Huddersfield to see what is going on.

Today we will be looking at the Oxygrains Old Bridge.

Here it is on a map:

map of old oxygrains bridge

So yeah, it is an old bridge in the middle of the pennines. Its approximately 400 years old.

So, what’s the deal with this bridge? Well, its an ancient packhorse bridge that crosses the oxygrains clough. Merchants would travel across this bridge to trade cloth between Yorkshire and Lancashire. The ancient paths are now lost, because of the new road system, but the bridge still remains.

I team up with wessyman, and we both pop down and take a look.

Here it is, Oxygrains bridge

behind it is the oxygrains new bridge. a bridge that connects Rishworth and Denshaw

Oxygrains Old Bridge is very old and fairly important, yet it has not been forgotten. Wessyman points out that the bridge has been repointed  and indeed he is right. Calderdale council fixed it up a few years go to stop the bridge from dropping in bits. They even put soil on top of it to give it some extra protection.

It was a nice morning

Yorkshire Pennines

Cheers

An East Yorkshire Sunset, December 2013

Eevein’ red an’ mornin’ gray:

Certain signs o’ a bonnie day.

Evenin’ gray an’ mornin’ red

Will send t’ shepherd weet to bed.

1. Taken from The New Moon, Traditional Yorkshire Dialect Poem

Ben Nevis, Scotland

Here are some shots I took up Ben Nevis; the largest mountain in Great Britain.

The very top

Was freezing cold. It looks like the moon

Don’t stand too close to the edge

Pictures taken on my HTC One. My SD card I took with me malfunctioned and my camera would not work!

Spectacular sunset on the way down