Turtle Bridge

TURTLE BRIDGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073976
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:
Turtle Bridge
Statutory Address:
TURTLE BRIDGE

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Date:
2007-08-24
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073976
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1955
List Entry Name:
Turtle Bridge
Statutory Address 1:
TURTLE BRIDGE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TURTLE BRIDGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Harringworth
District:
Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Barrowden
National Grid Reference:
SP9280598495

Details

The asset was previously listed twice also under List entry 1372008. This entry was removed from the List on 31/03/2016.

SP 99 NW
8/1
10.11.55

BARROWDEN

Turtle Bridge
(Formerly listed as Turtle Bridge (that part within the former Uppingham RD))

II

Bridge. Possibly of C14 widened 1793, with C19/C20 parapet. Ashlar and red
brick. 3 arches, the bases of stone, the visible arches of brick the cutwaters
continuing upwards to form niches in the brick and stone coped brick parapet.
Carries bridleway over River Welland and lies about 1½ miles SW of Church of
St. Peter, Barrowden, off road to Seaton. Victoria County History of Rutland,
Vol. II, p173, where reference to bridge with similar name at Barrowden in
C13.


Listing NGR: SP 92805 98495

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
186823
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Rutland, (1935), 173

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Turtle Bridge

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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