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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Winch Bridge like this:
Winch Bridge, suspension bridge across the river Tees, North-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles NW. of Middleton in Teesdale; is said to be the earliest suspension bridge in Europe; the Tees rushes through a rocky gorge here with great force.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Winch Bridge by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Holwick | 0 | 2 |
Newbiggin | 1 | 3 |
High Force | 0 | 2 |
Middleton in Teesdale | 0 | 4 |
Lonton | 0 | 2 |
Langdon | 0 | 3 |
Lunedale | 0 | 2 |
Laithkirk | 0 | 2 |
Romaldkirk | 0 | 2 |
Mickleton | 0 | 2 |
Forest and Frith | 0 | 3 |
Hunderthwaite | 0 | 2 |
Harwood | 0 | 2 |
Eggleston | 1 | 2 |
Park Quarter | 0 | 1 |
Weardale St John | 0 | 2 |
Westgate | 0 | 2 |
Mickle Fell | 0 | 2 |
Teesdale | 0 | 2 |
Cotherstone | 0 | 2 |