Glaisdale

Neat traditional stone cottages line the road and typical Victorian cottages built to house the workers from the three blast furnaces, fringe the lower part of the road before it twists and turns through woodlands, crosses the Esk and then climbs the 1 in 3 gradient of Limber Hill.

One of Yorkshires well-known landmarks, Beggar’s Bridge, a packhorse bridge built in 1619 crosses the River Esk and has remained unaltered. Legend has it that Thomas Ferris, a poor local youth used to wade or swim across the river to court the daughter of the local squire.
The squire did not approve of this relationship, so Ferris left the district to make his fortune, which he did.
He returned, married the girl, and built the bridge to symbolise their love and to enable later generations to cross without getting wet.

There is a signpost on an unclassified road near Glaisdale in the Esk Valley leading to ‘Fryup’, 3 miles away.