2023

TQ1052 : Site of Outdowns Bridge

taken 3 years ago, near to Effingham, Surrey, England

Site of  Outdowns Bridge
Site of Outdowns Bridge
The site of Outdowns Bridge, one of the Lovelace Bridges (see below). The bridge originally carried what is now a private road named Outdowns, but which was originally part of the route of one of the forestry tracks leading up to the sawmills at Brockholes Cross, where Outdowns now meets Epsom Road. There is no public access onto Outdowns. The 1914 25 inch map shows a track running under the bridge, but other than the cutting in the foreground, there is no longer any sign of it, at least on this side.
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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TQ1052, 18 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Capper   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 30 May, 2023   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 10 November, 2023
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 106 521 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:15.4829N 0:24.9116W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 106 521
View Direction
East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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