2023

TQ1050 : Hermitage Bridge

taken 3 years ago, 3 km from Abinger Hammer, Surrey, England

This is 1 of 4 images, with title Hermitage Bridge in this square
Hermitage Bridge
Hermitage Bridge
Looking across Hermitage Bridge, a bridge over Sheepwalk Lane, one of the Lovelace Bridges (see below), with this being the route of one of the forestry tracks. Grade II listed - see LinkExternal link (Archive LinkExternal link ) . See TQ1050 : Hermitage Bridge and TQ1050 : Hermitage Bridge for photos of the bridge from below. The house in the background is The Hermitage, built by Lovelace at around the same time, possibly for a gamekeeper or forester.
The Lovelace Bridges :: TQ1051

William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace, was owner of the East Horsley Estate in the 19th Century. The estate included an extensive forested area, and in order to assist the movement of timber using horse drawn carts to his sawmill on the Epsom Road, in the 1860s he developed a network of tracks with embankments where needed to reduce gradients, with bridges constructed where these tracks crossed an existing road or track. The bridges, now known as the Lovelace Bridges, were built out of brick and flint, a style he adopted for all structures and buildings on the estate, including the main seat, Horsley Towers. There were 15 bridges in all, of which 10 still survive. All but one of the extant bridges are grade II listed. For a map of all the bridges and a marked trail covering a number of them, produced by the Horsley Countryside Preservation Society, see LinkExternal link.


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Geographical Context: Paths Housing, Dwellings Woodland, Forest Near: East Horsley Road: Sheepwalk Lane Bridge: Hermitage Bridge Building: The Hermitage other tags: Lovelace Bridge Grade II Listed Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Hermitage Bridge [8] · Sheepwalk Lane [8] · Bridge over Sheepwalk Lane [5] · House [4] Title Clusters: · Hermitage Bridge [4] ·
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TQ1050, 47 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Capper   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 25 May, 2023   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 9 November, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 101 501 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:14.4090N 0:25.3757W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 101 501
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NORTH (about 0 degrees)
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