Catterick Bridge is both a bridge across the

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, England, about 1 mile north of Catterick, and a

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at the south end of the bridge.

The bridge

The bridge carries the A6136 road (once the Great North Road). It was originally built in 1422, rebuilt probably in the late 16th century and widened in 1792. It is now a

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The hamlet

The hamlet includes Catterick Racecourse and a few houses, the Sunday market, held at the racecourse, was once the largest of its kind in Northern England. After declining fortunes, the market closed in 2016. The former ''Bridge House Hotel'' currently stands derelict after a fire destroyed a vast majority of

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in 2014. There had been a

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at this site since at least the 16th century. After several attempts to auction the property, it was removed from the market in October 2020 due to lack of interest.

Charles Macintosh Charles Macintosh FRS (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843) was a Scottish chemist and the inventor of the modern waterproof raincoat. The Mackintosh raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard) is named after him. Biography Macintosh was b ...

, the inventor of the

Mackintosh The Mackintosh or raincoat (abbreviated as mac) is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made of rubberised fabric. The Mackintosh is named after its Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh, although many writers added a letter ''k ...

raincoat, Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet and

William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, (; 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A general in the British Army and a Marshal in the Portuguese Army, he foug ...

were educated at Catterick Bridge.Gordon L. Teffeteller, ‘Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford (1768–1854)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 201
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