Dunsop Bridge

The village of Dunsop Bridge forms part of the Duchy of Lancaster’s Whitewell Estate. Situated within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this area provides some of the most accessible and frequently visited designated landscape in Lancashire.

Dunsop Bridge is a working community; the village was developed to serve farming, forestry and mining (ore extraction in the hills).

The pictures here were taken by Kathryn Bennett, of Dunsop Bridge. Please click on any of the pictures to see a larger version.

Dunsop Bridge is the entrance to the famous Trough of Bowland. Lovely winding paths from here through the moors to Lancaster are popular with thousands of fell walkers. With resident ducks and grassy banks it is the perfect place to stop for a picnic or a cup of tea and a cake at the café.

At St Hubert’s Church the painting of a horse on the ceiling above the altar is supposed to be of the 1861 Derby winner ‘Kettledrum’. Owned by the Towneley family it is said that the church was paid for with the horse’s winnings. Ordnance Survey have declared Dunsop Bridge as the official centre of the United Kingdom. The village phone box commorates this fact and was unveiled by the famous explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes on 29th June 1992.