NorthEast
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Durham
Baynard's Castle Ft Br 1882
N54o 32' 20.8" W1o 55' 32.3"
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GAUXHOLME VIADUCT 1840’s Todmorden, Yorksh. George Stephenson HEW2 SD931-233 (not visited)
Thomas Telford gave credit to the Leeds engineer George Leather for the concept of an arch above the road bed which supports it by means of iron rod hangers which Leathers first used in the famous Stanley Ferry Aqueduct. Although these bridges are often called suspension bridges, the rods instead of flexible chains make them much more rigid and much safer as rail road bridges. Telford as well as George and Robert Stephenson also used this type of bridge.
This bridge crosses the Rochdale Canal in an 102 foot span. The arches have a decorative cast iron horizontal member and an arcade of sub-arches above the hangers. The bridge itself is part of a curving masonry viaduct carrying George Stephenson’s Manchester and Leeds route of 1840
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BRADFORD CALDER & HEBBLE CANAL BR. #248 1850s YORKSHIRE N53o 50' 7.4" W1o 42'11.3"
This charming Regency iron girder bridge was built probably in the mid 19th century for a carriage drive across the Calder & Hebble Canal to a private estate. It’s ‘gothic’ theme but substantial abutments give it a Victorian presence. It has handsome rusticated masonry abutments and delicate parapet railings with a gothic feel.
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BRANDY WHARF BRIDGE LINCOLNSHIRE 1831 HEW 1712 TF015 970 N53O 27' 35.6" W0o 28' 23.6"
This single span shallow arch bridge was designed by John Rennie to cross the new channel of the Ancholme River as part of his drainage and navigation plan for the waterway. Five cast iron ribs spanning 54’ 9” were cast by the Butterley Company in two segments with each rib bolted at the crown and anchored at the four abutments with bold pillars with plain stone moldings. The spandrels have a geometric bold pierced design with an equally simple plain vertical fencing for the parapet in the Regency style. It was very sensitively strengthened and modernized in the late 1980’s.
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BOURNE BRIDGES, LINCOLNSHIRE 1832 N52o 45' 59.1" W0o 22' 33.5"
Just across from the Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul in the heart of Bourne is a small spring-fed waterway known locally as The Bourne Eau which was once in great demand for its purity. It was shipped by barrel to London in vast quantities. Two small bridges cross it to reach residences. The larger gated bridge going to an Elizabethan era house is dated 1832 and has a large M on its crown piece. It has two cast iron ribs with decorative pierced spandrels and is about 15 feet long and 7 feet wide. The smaller bridge is about 50 feet to the west and is skewed to enter the garden of another house, also with two ribs but with diminishing circles in the spandrels. It is about 12 feet long and 4 feet wide.
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BOSTON BRIDGES LINCOLNSHIRE 1803-1807 HEW 643 TF329 437 Hospital Lane. Town Bridge N52o 59' 6.6" W0o 1' 7.2" .
Three virtually identical cast iron footbridges were built by John Rennie in Boston to cross the Drains in conjunction with his improvements to the Maud Foster Drain in his Fen drainage system. The surviving one at Hospital Lane is a single arch "formed by a pair of slender cast-iron ribs giving a 61 foot clear span with a 3 foot, 9 inch rise. The ribs, which bear the inscription ‘cast at Butterley 1811’, are also curved in plan. This gives the two bridges a markedly waisted appearance and illustrates the skill of the early iron founders. The webs of the ribs are pierced in the Vierendeel style and their upper chords are bowed to give a pronounced camber to the footways. Simple wrought iron balustrades terminate in plain square gritstone pillars above brick abutments.” (Civil Engineering Heritage: Eastern and Central England p 67) The town bridge for a century was one designed by Rennie which was replaced in 1913 with the present iron bridge designed by John W. Webster.
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WHORLTON BRIDGE 1830 Co.Durham HEW 356 NZ106 145 N54o 31' 33.1" W1o 50' 12.7"
This bridge replaced an older bridge that crossed the River Tees and follows the design of John Green for his Scotswood bridge over the Tyne. This bridge has suspension chains of flat wrought iron links almost ten feet long supporting a deck with wrought iron cross braces floored with timber. It spans 198 feet. There is a charming toll house beside it as it was on the Whorleton to Staindrop turnpike.
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