The Old Bridge Over the Hebden Water

THE OLD BRIDGE OVER THE HEBDEN WATER, BRIDGE GATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1228914
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:
The Old Bridge Over the Hebden Water
Statutory Address:
THE OLD BRIDGE OVER THE HEBDEN WATER, BRIDGE GATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1228914
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1963
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
The Old Bridge Over the Hebden Water
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD BRIDGE OVER THE HEBDEN WATER, BRIDGE GATE

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD BRIDGE OVER THE HEBDEN WATER, BRIDGE GATE

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

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Hebden Royd
National Grid Reference:
SD 99217 27294

Details

SD 9927 HEBDEN ROYD C.P. BRIDGE GATE, Hebden Bridge

5/47 The Old Bridge over the Hebden Water (formerly 19.7.63 listed as Old Hebden Bridge)

G.V. II*

Packhorse bridge, c.1510. Has plaques recording repairs of 1600, 1602 and 1657. The parapet repaired in 1845 and raised in 1890. Large dressed stone. 3 segmental arches the voussoirs chamfered with 2 pointed breakwaters rising the full height of the parapet to the south west. Similar to north east but one is capped off at keystone level where a wall abuts. Three inscribed date plaques: REPAYRED: BY TH E.RIDINGE: BY ORD REPAIRED BY HELP OF ER: OF SESSIONS (B) Y GVST : 1657 RICHARD : NALER Y R.G.R.G. SESSIONS 1602 REPAIRED BY HELP OF JOHN : GREENMOOD SESSIONS 1600

The land arch to the east bank originally served the tail-goit of Bridge Mill (q.v.), once the XnnoriaJ Corn Mill. Scheduled Ancient Monument.Calder Civic Trust, Hebden Bridge Trail (Bolton, no date), p.5. D. Thomas, The Old Bridge, Hebden Bridge Lit. & Sci. Soc., Local History Booklets Vol. 3, (Hebden Bridge, 1982), p.3. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1967), p.260.

Listing NGR: SD9921727294

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
403646
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Spencer, C, Hebden Bridge History Trail, (), 5
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 260
Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society Local History Section Booklets in Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society Local History Section Booklets, Vol. 3, (1982), 3

Legal

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

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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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