CALDER-BRIDGE, a hamlet in the parish of BECKERMET
ST-BRIDGET'S, ALLERDALE ward above Derwent,
county of CUMBERLAND, 5 miles (S. E.) froni
Egremont. The population is returned with the parish.
It owes its origin and name to a bridge erected over the
river Calder, and is celebrated for the remains of an
abbey, founded for Cistercian monks, by Ralph de Meschines,
second Earl of Chester and Cumberland, in
1134, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the revenue
of which, at the suppression, was £64. 3. 9.: the ruins,
are situated in a sequestered and well-wooded vale,
near a modern mansion of the same name, and consist
principally of part of the transepts of the church,
composed of five circular arches resting on clustered
columns, and overspread with ivy, and a tower supported
on eight clustered pillars, from the capitals of
which spring beautiful pointed arches.