The
timber work on the
gable end of the
building fronting the
road remains the
same, but the front
wall is now all stone,
giving the entire
structure a much
more medieval apperance.
Postbridge takes its name from the arched
bridge that was built to carry the post
road from Princetown in the south-west to
Moretonhampstead in the north-east.
Lying about ten miles east of Hawes, Aysgarth is famous for a series of waterfalls on the River Ure, the upper of which can still be viewed from a 16th-century single-arch bridge.
Lying about ten miles
east of Hawes, Aysgarth
is famous for a series of
waterfalls on the River
Ure, the upper of which
can still be viewed from
a 16th-century single
arched bridge.
The hatch cover of the square-rigged wherry 'Widgeon' has been lifted away in sections for its cargo of planks to be offloaded - they are stacked neatly under the stone arches of the mill.
In the
foreground stands the arch of the Conservative Club, with the solid
brick-built Cambridge Hotel next door.The honey-pot style telegraph
poles carry lines to the surrounding buildings.
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