WILLEY PARK BRIDGE 1829 Shropshire N52o 47' 30.2" W2o 1' 45.3"

This bridge creates an underpass beneath the B4376 Broseley-Much Wenlock road for the private carriage way to Willey Park. All that appears from the A4376 is the brick parapet walls and one has to look over them to see the brick abutments and wing walls below. From its appearance today, one would never guess that this bridge is formed by iron troughs which once had wrought iron fascia ribs on the outside with the characteristic Coalbrookdale diminishing circles pattern. Anthony Blackwall ("Historic Bridges of Shropshire" p. 59-60) notes that by 1985 the fascias had been removed and the troughs filled with reinforced concrete. One can still see the edge of the toughs and on the top of the parapet where there must have been iron posts for the railing, now cut off flush with the coping.