The beck runs through the village of Wycoller, meandering past Wycoller Hall, a late sixteenth-century manor house. Today Wycoller Hall stands in ruins but this 16th century hall is believed to have been the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Bronte’s novel, ‘Jane Eyre’.
The beck is crossed by no less than seven bridges, the oldest of which is Clam Bridge, more than 1000 years old, and the bridge is listed as an Ancient Monument.
Finds of flint tools and axe heads at Wycoller indicate that there was a community here from as early as the Stone Age.
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