BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3451 1372

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268991
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3451 1372
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3451 1372

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268991
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3451 1372
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3451 1372

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

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

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:: BRIDGE AT NGR TL 3451 1372

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 34503 13716

Details

HERTFORD

TL3413NE THE NEW RIVER, THE KING'S MEAD 817-1/7/351 Bridge at NGR TL 3451 1372

II

Bridge, built to span the Hertford cut of the New River. 1817. Prefabricated cast-iron girder bridge with perforated spandrels, ornamental keystones with date. Convex chordal profile, span approx. 4.5m, rise approx. 450 mil. Inscribed 'New River Co', 'Priestfield Iron Works near Bilston' (Staffordshire). Outer arches carry cast 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 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: TL3450313716

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Legacy System number:: 461239
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

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