Dunsop Bridge is a village within the Ribble Valley borough of Lancashire, England, situated 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Clitheroe, 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Lancaster and 24.5 miles (39 km) west of Skipton. It is in the civil parish of Bowland Forest High.
It is one of two main contenders for the location of the exact geographic centre of Great Britain. The other town is Haltwhistle in Northumberland, some 71 miles (114 km) to the north. Dunsop Bridge's claim is calculated on the fact that it is the gravitational centre of the island (although the exact point is at Whitendale Hanging Stones, near Brennand Farm, 41⁄2 miles (7 km) north of the village).
In 1992, BT installed its 100,000th payphone at Dunsop Bridge and included a plaque to explain its significance - the plaque reads "You are calling from the BT payphone that marks the centre of Great Britain." The telephone box was unveiled by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
The Queen has visited Dunsop Bridge twice, once during the late 1980s and more recently in the summer of 2006.
Read more about Dunsop Bridge: Geography, History, St. Hubert's Church
Famous quotes containing the word bridge:
“Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.”
—Paul Simon (b. 1949)