Ivelet Bridge and coffin stone
Historical Environment Record No:
MYD35410
Parish:
Muker
OS Grid Reference:
Dale:
Description
Ivelet Bridge & coffin stone MYD35410 (c) YDNPA, 2023
Ivelet Bridge is an attractive single span bridge probably of 17th century date. It has a semicircular arch of rubble voussoirs, surmounted by smaller stones forming a hoodmould. The coffin stone is a stone slab set in the verge beside the carriageway of the bridge. Traditionally it is said to have been set there for the purpose of resting the wicker baskets used to carry corpses along the so-called Corpse Way from Upper Swaledale for burial in the churchyard at Grinton. Muker churchyard was consecrated in 1580 and the practice then ceased.
Source:
Hartley, Marie & Pontefract, Ella (1988) Swaledale. Otley: Smith Settle