More information : (SS 90553489) FB (NAT) (1) Winsford Smithy Bridge on the River Winn is a 17th C packhorse bridge with one segmental arch and a roadway width of 4 ft 6 ins. (2) Scheduled. (3) The bridge is as described above, (See GP AO/65/185/7). (4) Winsford Smithy Packhorse Bridge spans to Winn Brook at SS 90553488. It is as described by authy 2 and is the most picturesque, interesting and important bridge in Winsford on the Winn Brook; it is not, however, scheduled as an ancient monument, this distinction being reserved for a very nondescript Bridge at SS 90623490 (SAM Som 197). (5) SS93SW WINSFORD CP WINSFORD VILLAGE 19/153 Packhorse bridge over Winn Brook at NGR SS 9055 3488 6.4.59 GV II Packhorse bridge over Winn Brook. Medieval in origin, restored 1952. Red sandstone random rubble, rubble voussoirs, hit and miss coping. Single span, semi-circular arch bridge. Remains of pebble pathway. Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 197). (Photograph in NMR). (6)
SS 90553488. Medieval packhorse bridge over the Winn Brook. Listed Grade II and scheduled. The bridge with SAM No 197 is in fact a different bridge (See SS 93 SW 11), further to the east. (7)
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