Rede Bridge: Carrying Nothing But a Grassy Track

Built in 1715, Rede Bridge crosses the River Rede in rural Northumberland with two confident stone arches and a smaller flood arch on the right bank. It is Grade II listed. It is, by any measure, too good a bridge for a field path.

So why build it at all?

The most persuasive answer involves c ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/26/rede-bridge-carrying-nothing-but-a-grassy-track/

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“William Shakespeare was a powerful influence on Robert Burns… I count as many as 16 references to Shakespeare’s plays in his poetry”

—Prof Gerard Carruthers on the links & commonalities between Robert Burns & William Shakespeare

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EXHIBITION UNPACKS 18TH-CENTURY BOTANICAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN CANTON AND LONDON

New London exhibition displays botanical art and research from Canton, China, from the 1700s. See how plants and knowledge were shared.

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An exhibition in London features botanical art from Canton, China, created about 235 years ago. This shows how plants and ideas were exchanged between the two cities in the 1700s.

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A lively, privileged group of young intellectuals grew ever more alarmed by the crises that struck Britain in the mid-#18thcentury.

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