SWING BRIDGE

SWING BRIDGE, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388921
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
List Entry Name:: SWING BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: SWING BRIDGE, LONDON ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-01
Reference:: IOE01/00378/25
Rights:: © Mr Ray Horrocks. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388921
Date first listed:: 14-Feb-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: SWING BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: SWING BRIDGE, LONDON ROAD

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SWING BRIDGE, LONDON ROAD

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: Boston (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TF 32680 43077

Details

BOSTON

TF3243SE LONDON ROAD 716-1/14/80 (East side) 14/02/75 Swing Bridge (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (East side) Great Northern Railway Swing Bridge and Control Cabin)

II

Swing bridge for docks railway. 1882-4 by Handysides the Derby Ironfounders. Segmental panelled iron sides with central circular pier, set on timber piled platform. Hydraulically opened from control cabin on west bank with manual control at the centre of the bridge. HISTORY: it was constructed to connect the docks single track railway to the Great Northern Line, when the docks created in 1884, in order to cross the Haven. The bridge was prefabricated in the works and arrived in Boston in a partly assembled state in November 1882. The dock was opened on 15th December 1884. (Cartwright A: Boston. A Railway Town: Boston: 1987-: 39).

Listing NGR: TF3268043077

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 486382
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cartwright, A, Boston. A Railway Town, (1987), 39

Legal

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