River Gade and the A4146 road bridge at Water End
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River Gade and the A4146 road bridge at Water End
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 19 Mar 2006
Viewed looking northwards and upstream. The bridge is a Grade II Listed Structure and the Historic England website describes it thus:- "Circa 1800 when road realigned, widened on E side (not the side in this photograph) 1976 by Herts County Council. Red brick in English-bond with stone dressings. A humped bridge in medieval style of 3 pointed arches each of 20ft span with 4 stone-capped cutwaters linked by a moulded string course. Deep-chamfered brick rib to soffit a little inside front arch. Chamfered stone dressing to plinths from which arches spring, linked by weir under bridge and marking water level on reconstructed upstream face. Moulded stone cappings to brick parapets splayed at ends and terminated by octagonal brick piers."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.781709
Longitude
-0.493809