Description

ASHPRINGTON

SX85NW BOW
6/37 BOW BRIDGE

11.11.52

GV II

Road bridge over Harbourne River. Probably late C17 or early C18, widened in
early to mid Cl9. Local stone rubble and slate. Single span hump-back bridge
with dressed slate round arch. The parapets have vertical slate lacing and
dressed stone coping. The parapets are swept out over the abutments which
extend a long way to the south west under which there is a very small flood
arch with a slate lintel.
The bridge has a span of about 5 metres. It was originally about 3 metres
wide but was widened on the downstream side in the early to mid C19 with a
finely dressed stone arch.
Leland in the C16 mentioned a bridge between Ashprington and Cornworthy but
this bridge probably no earlier than the late C17.
Source: Henderson C. and Jervoise E., Old Devon Bridges page 39.

Listing NGR: SX8122756577

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610530

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)