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