Category: River Tone Structures

Duckhams Bridge

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Bridge Name:   Duckhams Bridge
No.:   25
Location:   50.99317,-3.34478
Build Date:   Rebuilt 1933
Engineer:   Surveyor: Edward J. Stead
     
       
 
Description:   Single Arch stone construction ( Stead concrete reconstruction?)
Boundry Stone on parapet SP AP 1856 – Marked the point on Duckham’s Bridge where the parish boundary between Stawley and Ashbrittle runs. Second plaque states reconstructed 1933
     
References:   Somerset HER No. 43895

SRO C/CA/31/5/1 Surveyor: Edward J. Stead, Weston-Super-Mare. Reference: 0504 Plan of Duckhams Bridge, Wellington Rural District. Oct 1932

Hagley Bridge

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Bridge Name:   Hagley Bridge
No.:   23
Location:   51.00603,-3.34711
Build Date:   circa 1955?
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Description:   Concrete deck on brick/stone abutments. Metal handrails
 
    SRO C/CA/31/5/2 – Site plan and details. Surveyor: J.H.H.Wilkes, Taunton. Reference: 0506/01
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Castle Copse Footbridge

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Bridge Name:   Castle Copse Footbridge
No.:   21
Location:    
Build Date:    
Engineer:    
     
       
 
Description:    
Shown on ordnance survey map by the weir upstream from Pare Mill. This bridge does not exist.
     
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Pouch Bridge

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Bridge Name:   Pouch Bridge
No.:   19
Location:   51.01422,-3.34975
Build Date:    
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Description:   Single arch stone construction
The bridge here was in need of repair in the year 1653, for in that year it was a matter for consideration at the Quarter Sessions1

Concrete plaque on bridge : SCC 1950 BIC – marks boundary between parishes of Chipstable and Bathealton and suggests work undertaken on bridge by SCC in 1950 
     
References:   1. Ancient Bridges of the South of England published in 1930 by E.Jervoise

2. Somerset Historic Environment Record 43910: Boundary stone, Pouch Bridge, Bathealton

Waterrow Bridge

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Bridge Name:   Waterrow Bridge
No.:   18
Location:   51.02011,-3.35405 Carries B3227
Build Date:   19th Century
Engineer:    
     
       
 
Description:   Single arch stone construction – 
Known as Biballs Bridge before the construction of the turnpike road circa 1820.
    Eighteenth-century Turnpike road, Four Ways Cross to Wiveliscombe
References:   SRO C/CA/31/79/1 Plan of Waterrow Bridge – Surveyor: Edward J. Stead, Weston-Super-Mare. Reference: 5340/01. Plan labelled: 9061/01

Somerset Historic Environment Record 43953: County bridge boundary Stone, E of Washbattle Mills, Washbattle, Wiveliscombe