A Small Clapper Bridge at Wash Dub. - a photo on Flickriver

            Wednesday Walk.

This week back to the glorious Yorkshire Dales, from Clapham to Feizor and Elaines Tea Room.
The clapper bridge is one of two, the other much longer, situated on The Dales High Way just outside Wharfe.

The two clapper bridges are linked by a stone flagged causeway. They are reputedly of 15th century date. One bridge has a single stone slab about 75cm wide and about 3 metres long supported on a rubble and stone base at both banks. The second bridge to the north east comprises three slabs on four piers with a total length of about 6 metres, photo of that bridge to come! 
Wash Dub is a spot where the water flow would be dammed to form a pool, where every spring and autumn the local sheep flocks would be brought and penned ready to be washed to rid them of tics  and other unwanted pests from the fleeces.
This continued until more modern pesticides made the job a little easier!
The term was thought to have launched the poem 'Rub-a-Dub-Dub 3 men in a tub'.
   

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Taken on: July 3, 2019

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