2023

TQ0950 : Briary Hill Bridge East

taken 2 years ago, 3 km from West Horsley, Surrey, England

This is 1 of 3 images, with title Briary Hill Bridge East in this square
Briary Hill Bridge East
Briary Hill Bridge East
Looking across Briary Hill Bridge East, a bridge over a bridleway in Coles Copse, one of the Lovelace Bridges (see below), with this being the route of one of the forestry tracks. See TQ0950 : Briary Hill Bridge East and TQ0950 : Briary Hill Bridge East for photos of the bridge from the bridleway underneath. Grade II listed - see LinkExternal link.
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 Woodland, Forest Near: East Horsley Place: Coles Copse Bridge: Briary Hill Bridge East other tags: Lovelace Bridge Grade II Listed Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Briary Hill [16] · Bridge over a Bridleway in Coles Copse [6] Title Clusters: · Briary Hill Bridge East [3] ·
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TQ0950, 70 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Capper   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 25 May, 2023   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 10 November, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 099 508 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:14.7536N 0:25.5634W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 099 508
View Direction
South-southwest (about 202 degrees)
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