Puddle Ducks Tea Rooms

Dunsop Bridge is a small village located in the heart of the Forest of Bowland and according to the Ordnance Survey is referred to as the geographic centre of Great Britain.

Dunsop Bridge Post Office

Prior to the development of Dunsop Bridge as a village there were only a few farms and houses in the area, then with the advent of lead mining in the 19th century Dunsop Bridge developed into the small village it is today.

Dunsop Bridge Village won Lancashire Community Council’s Best Kept Village “Hamlet Class” Competition in 1992.

(Filmed Friday 15th July 2022)

If you take the public footpath at the side of Puddle Ducks Tea Rooms that follows the River Dunsop you will come to a football pitch and a play area, this is the Dunsop Bridge Jubilee Park.

On the north west side of the village on the road to the Trough of Bowland is Dunsop Bridge Village Hall.

On the north west side of the village on the Trough of Bowland road next to the Village Hall is Thorneyholme RC Primary School.

On the north west side of the village on the Trough of Bowland road a little further on from Thorneyholme RC Primary School is the small Roman Catholic Church of St Hubert’s, built to the design of Edward Pugin.

On the east side of the village on the Dunsop Bridge to Newton-in-Bowland road standing on the banks of the river Hodder is Thorneyholme Hall.

(Photographed and filmed in July & November 2022)