This is a list of current

bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

s and other crossings of the

River Swale The River Swale in Yorkshire, England, is a major tributary of the River Ure, which becomes the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse, that empties into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The river gives its name to Swaledale, the valley throu ...

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England.The Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas of City of York, York and North Yorkshire (district), North Yorkshire are in Yorkshire and t ...

, and are listed downstream to the river's mouth. The River Swale is listed on mapping as starting where Birkdale Beck meets Great Sleddale Beck. (). The river flows for about before joining the

River Ure The River Ure in North Yorkshire, England, is about long from its source to the point where it becomes the River Ouse. It is the principal river of Wensleydale, which is the only major dale now named after a village rather than its river. ...

near

Myton-on-Swale Myton-on-Swale is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is about east of Boroughbridge and on the River Swale. History The village is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' as ''Mitune'' in the ''Bulford hundred''. Prior ...

, and then later, the Ure becomes the River Ouse. The list below includes permanent bridges and crossings; structures such as the conveyor belt linking the different areas of Killerby Quarry east of Catterick village are not included. Several bridges have been removed, notably railway bridges, such as the one which used to carry the

Leeds & Thirsk Railway The Leeds Northern Railway (LNR), until 1851 the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, was an English railway company that built and opened a line from Leeds to Stockton via Harrogate and Thirsk. In 1845 the Leeds and Thirsk Railway received permission fo ...

over the river just to the north of Topcliffe. Hoggarth's Bridge was a two-arched structure which crossed the River Swale above Wain Wath Force, and it was swept away in 1899; its replacement, High Bridge, was built slightly downstream of the predecessor. The bridge at Gunnerside was swept away in a flood in 1890, and the suspension bridge at Reeth, first installed in 1925, was swept away in flooding in the year 2000. Flash floods are known on the river with the bridge at Grinton sometimes being flooded to a depth of so that only the tops of the bridge parapets can be seen in the floodwater. As with other river locations in Northern England, especially in the old North Riding of Yorkshire, many bridges were built at the locations of fords across the river. One example of this is Scabba Wath Bridge. ''Wath'' comes from the

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''vað'' meaning ford.

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