Bridge at NGR TL 3410 1355
BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3410 1355
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268988
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge at NGR TL 3410 1355
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3410 1355
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268988
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge at NGR TL 3410 1355
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3410 1355
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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:
- BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3410 1355
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hertford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34099 13548
Details
HERTFORD
TL3413NW THE NEW RIVER, THE KING'S MEAD
817-1/7/348 Bridge at NGR TL 3410 1355
II
Bridge, built to span the improved Hertford cut of the New
River. c1837. Formed of curved cast-iron arch girders, 10 set
close together with pierced spandrels, ornamental keystone,
convex chordal profile, approx 5m span, set between concave
curved abutments of yellow-brown stock brick, English bond.
Outer arches and abutments carry cast-iron and wrought-iron
post and rail handrails.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the New River was constructed in 1608-13 by
Sir Hugh Myddelton to provide water for London, with a 38 mile
water course from Chadwell Spring, between Ware and Hertford.
By early C18 the supply had become inadequate. In 1739 a new
Act allowed water to be drawn from the River Lea near
Hertford, to be measured by gauges, designed by Robert Mylne
(1733-1811). The River Lee Act of 1855 gave the New River
Company and the East London Waterworks Company the right to
take the whole of the Lea water, with the exception of that
required for navigation. An improved cut was made across the
King's Meads, and a new Gauge House (qv), designed by William
Chadwell Mylne (1761-1862) was built in 1856.
(Thames Water: History of the New River: London: 1985-; The
industrial archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W:
Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-:
97-101 167).
Listing NGR: TL3409913548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461236
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
History of the New River, (1985)
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 97-101 167
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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