Modern horsewalk.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a horsewalk at this location. The barn to which it was attached, located to the immediate north, still survives, but the circular platform itself appears to have been removed.
Manx garrison family who served across four generations in the Lord of Mann's military establishment. Their service ended abruptly at Revestment when the Board of Ordnance replaced the Manx garrison with British troops.
In his 'Isle of Man' published in 1848, J.G. Cumming recounts that in 1827, "after a violent storm...the sands opposite Mount Gawne were swept away and discovered a vast number of trunks of trees, some standing upright, others laid prostrate towards the north, as if overthrown by some violent incursion of the sea...it has been further stated to me...that the foundations of a primitive hut were laid bare, and that therein were some antique uncouth-looking instruments, once the property...of the primitive woodcutters."
Cummings' account is later distilled by local antiquary F. Swinnerton in 1902 to 'the foundations of a primitive hut' containing 'rude wood-cutting tools...among the remains of trees on the sea-shore below Mount Gawne, in Bay-ny-Carrickey'. Swinnerton also makes reference to axe-marked wood found in the same locality.
The accounts would appear to describe an area of prehistoric woodland inundated by marine incursion or sea-level rise. Similar remains have been recorded on several occasions at Cranstal / Phurt in Bride.
Brian Stowell (1936-2019) was a Manx language activist, author and broadcaster who played a central role in the revival of the Manx language during the late twentieth century. He was a fluent Manx speaker who produced a substantial body of work in the language, including novels, short stories and regular newspaper columns, and served as Manx Language Officer for Culture Vannin.
This small Primitive Methodist chapel is located at the roadside at the northern edge of Bride Village as is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. It remained intact and in use in 2021.
The site of a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Bride village. A chapel is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. A larger chapel now stands on the site, to the southeast of the parish church.
The parish church at Kirk Bride, dedicated to St Bridget. A church on this site is recorded from around 1200; the present building was substantially rebuilt in the 19th century, being consecrated in 1876 by Bishop Selwyn to a design by the architect Joseph Henry Christian. It contains an Adam and Eve stone - formerly part of the chancel floor and now set into an interior wall - one of only six such carved stones known in the British Isles. This record shares its mapped location with the separate Historic Environment Record entry for 'St Bridgets Church' (id 9079), which describes the earlier church that stood on the site before rebuilding; the two entries most likely refer to the same church at different periods, though this has not been independently confirmed.
This fragment of a cross once stood at the roadside opposite the old entrance into the churchyard, but its earlier history is unknown. Only the shaft of the cross now survives, but an old photograph shows that the slab was once cruciform in outline, and that a circle was carved in each limb. Each circle was joined to the next by a line so that the core of the cross was kite-shaped.
3 names listed alphabetically; First World War. Celtic cross with a granite base. The memorial was unveiled on Wednesday 23 August 1922 by the Lieutenant Governor. The memorial was dedicated by the Lord Bishop.
The site of a modern sand pit, which is now flooded. A well associated with a now lost dwelling was shown at the western side of the sand pit on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
Bridge Cottage, at Cranstal near Bride, is a thatched traditional Manx cottage registered as a protected building in May 1983, on the same day as its near neighbour Cranstal Cottage, which stands only about a hundred yards away. Together the two thatched cottages form one of the most recognisable clusters of vernacular building survivals on this exposed stretch of the island's northern coast.
Historic house, boathouse and dock on Castletown harbour, associated with the Quayle family and the yacht Peggy.
Bridge House stands across the Silverburn from Castle Rushen. The Quayle family acquired and developed property on the site during the eighteenth century. George Quayle, born in 1751, belonged to this family and became a banker, politician, militia officer and businessman.
Quayle commissioned the yacht Peggy in 1789. The vessel was housed beside Bridge House in a purpose-built boathouse connected directly with the harbour by a private dock. The surviving complex included Bridge House, stables, the boathouse and dock, together with the vessel itself.
The family papers preserve unusually detailed information about the household and Quayle's activities. In 1802 George Quayle, his brother Mark Hildesley Quayle, John Taubman and James Kelly opened the Isle of Man Bank in Castletown. Banking business was conducted from Bridge House.
The present Bridge House dates from 1812, replacing or incorporating earlier buildings on the site. Quayle continued to use the property until his death in 1835.
The Peggy remained in her boathouse after the Quayle family ceased to use the vessel. In 1942 the boat and boathouse were given to the Manx Museum and National Trust, and the site opened as the Nautical Museum in 1951.
In 2015 Peggy was removed from the boathouse for conservation. Archaeological work on the dock exposed further details of the structure and its gate mechanism, which had allowed the vessel to be brought from the harbour directly into the enclosed dock.
Bridge House on Bridge Street was extended by George Quayle around 1809, deliberately built upward and outward to block the view of the sea from the Governor's residence at neighbouring Lorne House after a falling-out between the families; its oldest section dates from the early 18th century. Built of local limestone, the harbour-facing elevation was clad in weatherproof Manx slate because the porous limestone alone offered poor protection from the elements. From 1802 the house served as the base of Quayle's Bank, and today it is used as offices while its former boat house houses the Castletown Nautical Museum, whose centrepiece exhibit is George Quayle's schooner-yacht Peggy.
Bridge House is a complex of buildings at the harbour mouth in Castletown, developed by the Quayle family from the third quarter of the eighteenth century. The home of George Quayle (1757-1835), politician, banker, and inventor, it houses the boathouse and dock he constructed for the yacht Peggy, and was opened as the Nautical Museum in 1951. The Bridge House Papers, deposited in the Manx Museum, are a significant archival collection relating to the Island's governance and estate administration.
The Bridge Inn on Bowring Road was a working public house through the late nineteenth century: Ramsey trade directories record it run by William Kermeen in 1883, and by his widow Jane Kermeen (later listed simply as "Mrs Kermeen") through 1889 and 1892. It has since closed as a pub and is recorded on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list as a former public house.