More information : Packhorse bridge at Winsford, 17th century with two segmental arches and a roadway width of 3 ft 6 ins. (1)
The packhorse bridge is at SS 90573516.
(See GP AO/65/187/1). (2)
Packhorse bridge close to Vicarage Bridge (SS 93 NW 9) at Winsford. It has two semicircular arches with a total span of about 30 ft. The width between the parapets is 3 ft 6 ins. This may be the bridge referred to as having been recently "re-edificed" in the Quarter Sessions of 1628. (3)
(SS 90573516) Winsford Packhorse Bridge.
Scheduled. (4 & 5)
16/3 Pack-horse Bridge (over river Exe). Listed Grade 2*. Picturesque narrow stone bridge with footway about 3' 6" wide,
cobbles, stone parapets, restored following 1952 flood damage Two semi-circular head arches. Ancient Monument. (6)
The narrow bridge across the Exe at SS 90573516, some 40m W of the main bridge (Vicarage Bridge), is as described. Nonetheless, even allowing for some alteration in 1952, it is rather ornamental in appearance being built of coursed till-like stones. Also it is rather narrow for a packhorse bridge, and its parapets at 0.9m rather high. More probably a footbridge than a packhorse bridge. (7)
SS 93 NW Winsford CP Winsford Village
14/152 Packhorse bridge over
River Exe at NGR SS 90573516
6.4.59
GV Grade II*
Packhorse bridge over River Exe. Medieval in origin, restored 1952. Flat bedded slate, saddle back coping of slate end on end. Two arch span, semicircular arches, random rubble voussoirs, brief cutwater between an upstream side, none on down stream. Parapet ramped up to centre, pebble path between. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 38). (Photograph in NMR). (8)
SS 90573516. Medieval packhorse bridge. Scheduling amended. (9) |