High Front, Kirkland
Location
Opposite the western end of Nether Bridge at the junction between Kirkland and Milnthopre Road.
History
Curwen, 1900 p 187
"High Front is so named by reason of the roadway at this point being lowered to give an easier gradient over Nether Bridge, and which resulted in the footpath being left some three feet above the surface, neccesitating a little flight of steps between the two in the centre of the row. The path was protected for some 50 or 60 yards by a breast wall standing some three feet or more above the walk, and double that height above the road. \the difference in the two levels was done away with in 1853, by lowering the path, at the time when Job Bintley, the Borough Surveyor, built the house with the bow window for his own residence. Some papers preserved at Levens Hall prove that at one time trees stood in front of this parapet. Only think of it! and what Kirkland misses to-day by their disappearance."
