Hythe Bow Bridge
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| Bridge Name: | Hythe Bow Bridge | |||
| No.: | 26 | |||
| Location: | -2.793148 51.267207 | |||
| Build Date: | Rebuilt 1911 | |||
| Engineer: | HT Chapman County Surveyor | |||
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| Description: | 18th Century Turnpike road – rebuilt 1911
Reinforced concrete slab bridge built in 1911 and designed by Edward Stead, Assistant County Surveyor. Copings, stringcourses and quoins are of ashlar masonry with the remainder of the masonry rock faced. The end of the concrete deck is exposed in elevation. The bridge is 15 feet in span and has had new parapets of a different style to the original added. Inscription on parapet reads ‘ SCC Hythe Bow Bridge rebuilt 1911 HT Chapman County Surveyor’. {1} |
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| 1. Somerset HER record 14365 | ||||
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