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 Cutthroat Bridge near Ladybower reservoir takes its gruesome name from a 400-year-old murder.
An old document tells us that a chap named Robert Ridge came across ‘a man with a wound in his throat in Eashaw Clough’. The proper name is Highshaw Clough but local dialect gives us Eashaw.
The man was still alive. Ridge and other helpers carried him to a house half a mile away, and then on to Bamford Hall where he died two days later.
The victim had been found lying about 40 yards (37m) from where a road bridge was later built. Remembering the murder, local people always referred to it as Cutthroat Bridge.
The present Cutthroat Bridge was built in 1821. Another murder victim was found here a few years ago, minus his head. Two Sheffield men were charged with causing his death.
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Sheffield Clarion Ramblers year book 1926/7
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