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| Name: | Bridge Gate, Bewdley |
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| HER Reference: | WSM10693 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 787 753 |
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| Map Sheet: | SO77NE |
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| Parish: | Bewdley, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire |
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Monument Types
- GATEHOUSE (LATE 11TH CENTURY AD to 18TH CENTURY AD - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)
Full description
There are two sketches the 1483 bridge preserved in the council chamber of Bewdley Town Hall. It was of five arches, and on the third pier from Bewdley stood a timbered gate-house with strong gates on the Wribbenhall side. The north end of this gate-house served as a dwelling for the toll-gatherer, and the other, called the Bridge House, was used as a corporation prison. [2]
The gatehouse was demolished with old bridge in 1798. [1][2]
Sources and further reading
| <1*> | Bibliographic reference: Page, W. 1924. A History of the County of Worcestershire; Volume IV. Victoria County History. vol IV, p304. |
| <2*> | Bibliographic reference: Various. 1985. Worcestershire Archaeology and Local History Newsletter No 35. Worcestershire Archaeological Society. 35. 16. |
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