Upper Forge Bridge

Date:
15 May 2000
Location:
Upper Forge Bridge, Urpeth, Chester Le Street, Durham
Reference:
IOE01/00001/30
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

URPETH HIGH URPETH NZ 25 SW 235542 3/64 Upper Forge Bridge II

Small road bridge over Urpeth Burn. Early C19. Tooled dressed sandstone.

Both faces similar. Single near-semicircular arch with set-back voussoirs and chamfered arch band. Parapet, above band at road level, has chamfered coping course. Slightly-projecting, square-plan end piers. Later battered abutment on south-west.

This bridge straddles the parishes of Urpeth and Lamesley.

Listing NGR: NZ2350054219

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE\Cottrell_Bob IOE Records for Cottrell, Bob; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Cottrell, Bob

Rights Holder: Cottrell, Bob

Keywords

Sandstone, Georgian Road Bridge, Victorian Transport, Road Transport Site, Bridge