Catterick Bridge

{{Short description|Bridge and hamlet in North Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2017}}

{{for|the road bridge|Catterick Bridge (bridge)}}

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| official_name = Catterick Bridge

| country = England

| unitary_england = North Yorkshire

| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| population =

| os_grid_reference = SE227992

| coordinates = {{coord|54|23|19|N|1|38|58|W|display=inline,title}}

| label_position = left

| post_town = Richmond

| postcode_area = DL

| postcode_district = DL10

| dial_code =

| constituency_westminster =

| civil_parish = Brough with St Giles

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Catterick Bridge is a hamlet about {{convert|1|mi|adj=on}} north of Catterick, at the south end of Catterick road bridge.

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.{{cite web|title=Catterick Sunday Market|url=http://www.cattericksundaymarket.co.uk/|accessdate=10 December 2007|archive-date=14 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114012509/http://www.cattericksundaymarket.co.uk/|url-status=dead}} After declining fortunes, the market closed in 2016.{{cite web|title=Catterick Sunday Market is struggling but will continue, organisers say|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14246346.catterick-sunday-market-struggling-will-continue-organisers-say/|access-date=19 April 2021|website=The Northern Echo}}{{cite web|last=Willis|first=Joe|date=9 May 2017|title=Meet Mark the Meat Man|url=https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/meet-mark-meat-man/|access-date=19 April 2021|website=Richmondshire Today}}

The former Bridge House Hotel currently stands derelict after a fire destroyed a vast majority of the Grade II listed building{{NHLE|num=1318300|accessdate=14 May 2016}} in 2014. There had been a coaching inn at this site since at least the 16th century.{{cite web|title=Catterick hotel destroyed by fire|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/11007346.catterick-hotel-destroyed-fire/|access-date=19 April 2021|website=The Northern Echo}} After several attempts to auction the property, it was removed from the market, in October 2020, due to lack of interest.{{cite web|last=Willis|first=Joe|date=30 October 2020|title=Fire-damaged landmark hotel removed from auction due to lack of interest|url=https://www.richmondshiretoday.co.uk/fire-damaged-landmark-hotel-removed-from-auction-due-to-lack-of-interest/|access-date=19 April 2021|website=Richmondshire Today}}

Charles Macintosh, the inventor of the Mackintosh raincoat, Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford were educated at Catterick Bridge.J. K. Laughton, 'Beresford, Sir John Poo, first baronet (1766–1844)', rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2197, accessed 30 April 2011]Gordon L. Teffeteller, 'Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford (1768–1854)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2199, accessed 30 April 2011]