2024

TQ0950 : Site of Falcon Bridge

taken 11 months ago, near to West Horsley, Surrey, England

This is 1 of 3 images, with title Site of Falcon Bridge in this square
Site of Falcon Bridge
Site of Falcon Bridge
The site of Falcon Bridge, one of the Lovelace Bridges (see below), where it crossed a lane named Honeysuckle Bottom. Although there are no obvious remains of the bridge nor the route of the tracks either side of the lane, a section of moss-covered brick wall on the west side of the lane (on the left in this photo) may be a relic of it. The bridge itself is marked on the 1961 6" map and other older large scale maps, from which I could work out the exact position.
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: Roads, Road transport Woodland, Forest Near: East Horsley Bridge: Falcon Bridge Road: Honeysuckle Bottom other tags: Lovelace Bridge Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Crossed a Lane Named Honeysuckle [3] Title Clusters: · Site of Falcon Bridge [3] ·
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TQ0950, 70 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ian Capper   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 15 March, 2024   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 28 March, 2024
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 094 508 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:14.7721N 0:26.0201W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 094 508
View Direction
North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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