Blue Bridge
BLUE BRIDGE, MILLERS WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246101
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE BRIDGE, MILLERS WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246101
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUE BRIDGE, MILLERS WAY
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE BRIDGE, MILLERS WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverton and Greenleys
- National Grid Reference:
- SP8229740389
Details
SP 84 SW
891/7/10001
23-MAY-01
MILLERS WAY
Wolverton
Blue Bridge
II
Railway over bridge. 1834-5 for the London and Birmingham Railway, chief engineer Robert Stephenson; extended 1878-82 by the London and North Western Railway. The original bridge is built of coursed, squared, rock-faced limestone and blue engineering brick. Three elliptical arches with stone imposts and blue brick arch rings. Stone facing to the bridge up to a continuous brick band supporting brick parapet walls and part original stone and part concrete coping. The extension bridge is built to a larger scale with twin segmental arches with a band over, flanked by pilasters, and with a continuous stone roll mould which is stepped down with the parapet a the far end of the bridge.
History: The London and Birmingham Railway was opened in this section in September 1838. It became a part of the London and North Western Railway in 1846. The original line was engineered by Robert Stephenson but this bridge, built as an accommodation bridge for Stacey Hill farm, is not built of brick as many of the major structures were, but of stone probably taken from the cutting it spans. The bridge was extended in the period 1878-82 when Wolverton works were by-passed by a new main line and it is this later bridge which continues to cross the running lines of the West Coast Main Line. The whole bridge is now out of use having been by-passed by the adjacent Millers Way bridge in the late C20. Blue Bridge is an interesting example of a first phase L & B bridge developed in a second phase and because all the first phase bridges over the running lines were rebuilt when the line was electrified in 1958. It is thus possibly a unique survivor of a minor London and Birmingham Railway accommodation bridge from the 1830s.
References: M A Bird, The Development of Wolverton, Buckinghamshire from Railway Town to New City (1838-1974), Goldsmiths College dissertation, 1974 (Wolverton Library).
Bill West, The Trainmakers, The Story of Wolverton Works, 1838-1981.
Bill West, Wolverton Works in Camera, 1838-1993.
Information from Milton Keynes Borough Council.
Listing NGR: SP8229740389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487607
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bird, M A, The Development of Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, from Railway Town to New City (1838-1974), (1974)
West, B, The Trainmakers: The Story of Wolverton Works 1838-1981, ()
West, B, Wolverton Works in Camera 1838-1993, ()
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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