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Bridge House
Bridge House, a tiny stone-built house straddling Stock Beck* in Ambleside, is one of the Lake District's best known landmarks, at least in part because it stands directly by the main A591 road along which most visitors to the Lakes will travel at least once during their stay. When built in the 16th Century, it stood in the apple orchard of Ambleside Hall, which is long since demolished. Building it on a bridge was a tax dodge: as it was over water, its owner could avoid land tax! Later it was used as a shop, and as home for a family of eight. It must have made a most uncomfortable abode as it is very tiny. In 1926 it was bought by locals and handed to the National Trust. A couple of decades later it became the Trust's first information centre, and it still houses a National Trust shop.
*In Cumbrian, a beck is a stream. [597]
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