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Bewdley Bridge

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Crosses
  
Design
  
Arch bridge

Opened
  
1798

Location
  
Body of water
  
Heritage status
  
Grade I listed

Material
  
stone

Width
  
8.2 m

Bridge type
  
Architect
  
Bewdley Bridge

Carries
  
Motor vehicles, B4190 road

Similar
  
River Severn, Holt Fleet Bridge, Mythe Bridge, Over Bridge, Bewdley Museum

Bewdley bridge jump


Bewdley Bridge is a three-span masonry arch bridge over the River Severn at Bewdley, Worcestershire. The two side spans are each 52 feet (16 m), with the central span 60 feet (18 m). The central arch rises 18 feet (5.5 m). Smaller flood arches on the bank bridge the towpath. The bridge is 27 feet (8.2 m) wide.

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Bewdley bridge restrictions lifted


History

There has been a bridge at this location since 1447, each being destroyed and replaced. Severe flooding in 1795 destroyed the previous bridge. That bridge comprised five pointed stone arches. A stone gatehouse on one pier had been replaced with a stone cottage by the time of a 1781 print. One of the arches had also been damaged by the Royalists in 1644 and rebuilt in timber.

Parts of a fifteenth-century bridge were rediscovered in 2004 during excavations for new flood defences.

Thomas Telford designed the current bridge, which was built in 1798 by Shrewsbury-based contractor John Simpson for £9,000. Its toll house was demolished in the 1960s.

References

Bewdley Bridge Wikipedia


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