2024

TQ1050 : Fork to Meadow Plat bridge

taken 8 months ago, 3 km from Effingham, Surrey, England

Fork to Meadow Plat bridge
Fork to Meadow Plat bridge
Bridleway Effingham 130 forks right to pass under TQ1050 : Meadow Plat Bridge, just visible behind the foliage. The track to the left joins the causeway, visible further to the left, which raises the forestry trail over the bridge. Meadow Plat is one of the Lovelace bridges.
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 Sign: Public Bridleway Primary Subject: Bridge other tags: Public Bridleway Forest Haul Road Causeway Lovelace Bridge Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Meadow Plat [13] · Meadow Plat Bridge [7] ·
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TQ1050, 47 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Hugh Craddock   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 27 May, 2024   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 27 May, 2024
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 1073 5086 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:14.7705N 0:24.8965W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 1077 5087
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WEST (about 270 degrees)
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