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Crossing or structure · Roman
39 Bridge Street, Chester
Cheshire
This Grade I listed Chester building (protected for its special architectural or historic interest) combines a surviving Roman underfloor-heating s…
- Near Chester
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Bridges, crossings & engineering of Britain & Ireland
Bridges, fords, causeways, aqueducts and canals: the engineered structures that carried roads, water and rail across the landscape.
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Abergavenny Bridge
Monmouthshire
Known as Tudor Bridge for the tradition that Jasper Tudor built it, the crossing also caught the eye of J. M. W. Turner, who painted it twice in th…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Aldermaston Lock
Berkshire
Its scalloped brick chamber still carries a single line of blue brick marking where a cheaper, lower wall once stood before 1984.
- Near Aldermaston
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Axmouth Old Bridge
Devon
Believed to be the oldest surviving concrete bridge in England, it needed steel reinforcement bolted into its unreinforced spans decades after they…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Bakewell Bridge
Derbyshire
One of its five cutwaters still carries the stump of a medieval wayside cross, tying this working road bridge back to the market routes that once p…
- Near Bakewell
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Bidford Bridge
Warwickshire
An early fifteenth-century bridge, pulled down in 1644 to cover Charles I's retreat and rebuilt six years later at the county's expense.
- Near Bidford-on-Avon
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Bow Bridge, Cumbria
Cumbria
One of Cumbria's few surviving late medieval multi-span bridges, largely unaltered since the monks of Furness Abbey built it to serve a mill that b…
- Near Barrow-in-Furness
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Bugsworth Basin
Derbyshire
A derelict tramway-canal interchange rebuilt over three decades by volunteers alone, now a rare surviving example of a working limestone transhipme…
- Near Bakewell
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Castle Bridge
Warwickshire
A single sandstone arch of 1790–93, built by act of Parliament to move Warwick's river crossing 400 metres upstream of the medieval one.
- Near Warwick
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Cattal Bridge
North Yorkshire
Its north arch and parapets have been repaired over the centuries, yet the bridge has never once been strengthened, so it keeps more of its origina…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Cenarth Bridge
Carmarthenshire
A late-Georgian river crossing built with two deliberate holes through its stonework, letting floodwater pass rather than overwhelm it: a trick its…
- Near Cenarth
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Chester New Bridge
County Durham
A worn parapet inscription still marks Charles Swinburne's Leap, the fatal fall of a horse and rider, on a crossing whose own age is disputed by tw…
- Near Chester-le-Street
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Crossing or structure · Pictish & early medieval
Clattern Bridge
Greater London
Built around 1175, this three-arched crossing over the Hogsmill is still carrying full modern traffic on its Norman stonework, making it one of Eng…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Clopton Bridge
Warwickshire
Fourteen pointed arches over the Avon at the Saxon ford that named Stratford: one of them deliberately destroyed in 1642 to stop Cromwell's army.
- Near Stratford-upon-Avon
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Crinan Canal
Argyll and Bute
Fifteen locks and two burst reservoirs of history connect Loch Gilp to the Sound of Jura, sparing ships the long, exposed passage around the Mull o…
- Near Crinan
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Daresbury (Mersey flat)
Cheshire
A sunken 18th-century sailing barge in a Cheshire lock is the only known pre-1840 survivor of a boat type that once worked every waterway in northw…
- Near Chester
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Dove Bridge
Staffordshire
Four pointed medieval arches and two rounded later ones, on a crossing used since before Domesday - and since the 1970s it has carried nothing but…
- Near Doveridge
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Duck Bridge
North Yorkshire
Duck Bridge is a likely fourteenth-century River Esk crossing whose 1717 rebuilding gave it its enduring name and whose listed sandstone form and c…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Dundas Aqueduct
Somerset
The first canal structure in Britain to be scheduled, in 1951 - and by 1954 it was leaking so badly it had to be closed.
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Eamont Bridge (structure)
Cumbria
Built in 1425 on the promise of religious indulgences, this humpbacked sandstone bridge over the Eamont survived a near-fatal battering by Storm Fr…
- Near Penrith
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
East Farleigh Bridge
Kent
East Farleigh Bridge is a rare Grade I listed and scheduled medieval River Medway crossing whose four-arch ragstone structure, cutwaters and long a…
- Near East Farleigh
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Edisford Bridge
Lancashire
Nine stone spans of mismatched ages and shapes, straddling the Ribble on a course fixed since at least 1339 and painted by Turner before 1799.
- Near Clitheroe
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Farndon Bridge
Wrexham
Built by Chester monks in 1339, this red sandstone crossing still carries live traffic between England and Wales: one of only a handful of medieval…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Fen Causeway
Cambridgeshire
A 24-mile Roman road built up on gravel to cross open marshland, with a cut section still visible today at Flag Fen where it crosses a much older B…
- Near Peterborough
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Crossing or structure · Prehistoric
Flag Fen
Cambridgeshire
More than 60,000 timbers, driven into the peat to carry a kilometre-long causeway across open water, with weapons and jewellery deliberately broken…
- Near Peterborough
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure
Foxton Locks
Leicestershire
Two staircases of five locks apiece make this the largest such flight on the English canal system, and a failed steam-powered boat lift once tried…
- Near Foxton
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Glasgow Bridge, Kirkintilloch
East Dunbartonshire
Glasgow Bridge marks a largely invisible Antonine Wall fortlet known through aerial evidence, beside a canal crossing that now connects Kirkintillo…
- Near Kirkintilloch
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Great Barford Bridge
Bedfordshire
A single crossing shows nearly six centuries of continuous change in one structure: medieval stonework widened first in timber, then rebuilt in bri…
- Near Great Barford
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Greystone Bridge
Cornwall
Greystone Bridge is a rare surviving medieval Tamar crossing: a four-arch, Grade I listed bridge whose narrow carriageway still demands careful mod…
- Near Penzance
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Hampton in Arden packhorse bridge
West Midlands
At under six feet wide and still standing after five centuries, it is reckoned the longest surviving packhorse bridge in England.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Hanging Bridge
Greater Manchester
Hanging Bridge is Manchester’s partly exposed 1421 medieval bridge, preserving a crossing over the former defensive watercourse now buried beneath…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Helmsley Bridge
North Yorkshire
The oldest bridge still standing over the River Rye, its narrow medieval arch surviving inside a structure later doubled in width to carry modern t…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
High Bridge, Lincoln
Lincolnshire
The oldest bridge in Britain still carrying standing buildings: a working row of Tudor shops perched on stonework raised eight and a half centuries…
- Near Lincoln
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Kexby Old Bridge
North Yorkshire
Closed to motor traffic since 2017 flood damage, this crossing carried the York-to-Hull road for six centuries and now survives as a scheduled monu…
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Kilgram Bridge
North Yorkshire
A working medieval river crossing raised directly over a Roman ford, its six stone arches have carried travellers across the Ure for close to nine…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Leckwith Bridge
Cardiff
A working medieval bridge still carrying goods vehicles after five centuries, built alongside: not replaced by: its 1935 concrete successor.
- Near Leckwith, Cardiff
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Loch a' Bharain
Argyll and Bute
Loch a’ Bharain is a purpose-built Crinan Canal reservoir whose 1801 dam stabilised the summit reach and whose recent drainage exposed traces of an…
- Near Cairnbaan
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Long Causeway
Derbyshire
A working packhorse road so steep that carters hung stones from their carts to brake the descent, and whose long-assumed Roman pedigree has since b…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Loyn Bridge
Lancashire
A crossing point in continuous use since a river ford was superseded, the present sandstone bridge still carries traffic despite recent flood damag…
- Near Hornby
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Malmsmead Bridge
Devon
Malmsmead Bridge is a small seventeenth-century crossing whose position over Badgworthy Water makes it a shared monument of both Somerset and Devon…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Monkey Marsh Lock
Berkshire
One of only two surviving turf-sided locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, out of more than a dozen originally built this way.
- Near Thatcham
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Monks Bridge, River Dove
Staffordshire
A fifteenth-century bridge scheduled twice: given statutory protection for what survives archaeologically by two counties, because it stands on the…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Monnow Bridge
Monmouthshire
Monnow Bridge is Britain’s only surviving fortified river bridge with its gate tower standing on the bridge, a Grade I monument that shaped Monmout…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Bridge, Bridgend
Bridgend
Only two of its five original medieval arches are visible; a third is walled into a shop, and a fourth lay hidden until a chance discovery in 2015.
- Near Bridgend
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Bridge, Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
Its central pier still carries a visible kink from 1332, when two building crews working from opposite banks failed to meet in a straight line.
- Near Huntingdon
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Bridge, Pontypridd
Rhondda Cynon Taf
William Edwards's single-span arched footbridge over the Taff at Pontypridd.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Castle Bridge
Warwickshire
Half its width was already in ruins by 1373, and it was repaired by charity. A flood swept most of the rest away in 1795.
- Near Warwick
- Rough ground
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Old Dee Bridge
Cheshire
Chester's oldest crossing survived a Roman timber-and-stone original, a 14th-century royal rebuilding order, and a fortified gatehouse before losin…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Old Exe Bridge
Devon
The Old Exe Bridge is England’s oldest surviving bridge of its scale and Britain’s oldest bridge with a chapel still on it, preserving Exeter’s med…
- Near Exeter
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Otley Bridge
West Yorkshire
A bridge commissioned by the Archbishop of York in 1228 and finished the next year, its width set to take a cart, and flooded repeatedly ever since.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Over Bridge
Gloucestershire
Telford borrowed the arch's shape from a Parisian bridge over the Seine, and builders watched it sink eight measured inches as its foundations sett…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Penwortham Old Bridge
Lancashire
Penwortham Old Bridge is a protected 1759 Ribble crossing whose five unequal arches, cobbled roadway and surviving cutwater refuges record an early…
- Near Penwortham
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Perry Bridge
West Midlands
A modest eighteenth-century packhorse bridge whose repair endowment quietly went on to found one of Birmingham's grammar schools.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Piercebridge Roman Bridge
County Durham
Piercebridge Roman Bridge preserves massive river-crossing masonry far from today's Tees channel, revealing both the scale of Dere Street and the c…
- Near Piercebridge
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Ringley Old Bridge
Greater Manchester
Ringley Old Bridge is a protected 1677 stone crossing of the River Irwell, built after flood destroyed its wooden predecessor and still linking Rin…
- Near Kearsley
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Rotherham Bridge
South Yorkshire
A medieval bridge chapel that became an almshouse, then the town gaol, then a shop: and is now the best preserved in England.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Sheffield Lock
Berkshire
An early-18th-century canal lock still doing its original job, its scalloped brick chamber and paddle gearing protected as a scheduled monument (le…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Skerton Bridge
Lancashire
The first large public bridge in England built with a flat roadway rather than a bowed one, a design John Rennie later carried into Waterloo Bridge…
- Near Lancaster
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
St Ives Bridge
Cambridgeshire
A working medieval road bridge that still carries a consecrated chapel on one of its piers: a combination almost unique in England.
- Near St Ives
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Pateley Bridge
North Yorkshire
St Mary’s Church preserves a roofless parish ruin on Pateley Bridge’s older high-ground settlement site, beside the town’s later shift of worship c…
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Staines Bridge
Surrey
Five successive bridges have failed, cracked, or been demolished on this Thames crossing since Roman times, making its 1832 granite survivor the so…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Stopham Bridge
West Sussex
A bridge over the Arun between Pulborough and Stopham, listed Grade I and scheduled as a monument besides.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Sunderland Bridge, County Durham
County Durham
A Grade I listed medieval crossing whose four sandstone arches once carried the Great North Road, now bypassed and reduced to footpath and estate t…
- Near Sunderland Bridge
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Swarkestone Bridge
Derbyshire
For roughly three hundred years this was the only crossing of the River Trent between Burton and Nottingham, and in 1745 it was the point at which…
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Crossing or structure · Prehistoric
Sweet Track
Somerset
Built in 3807 BC and used for about ten years before rising water ended it. A pumping system now keeps the surviving timber wet.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Swinford Toll Bridge
Oxfordshire
A privately owned bridge over the Thames above Eynsham Lock, linking Eynsham with Swinford.
- Near Eynsham
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Tarr Steps
Somerset
A stone-slab bridge over the River Barle in Exmoor, within a national nature reserve.
- Near Withypool
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Teston Bridge
Kent
Teston Bridge is a Grade I listed medieval River Medway crossing whose six unequal arches, cutwater refuges and surviving single-track road functio…
- Near Teston
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Crossing or structure · Roman
The Iron Bridge
Shropshire
Every component was cast individually to fit its neighbour, using carpentry joints - mortise and tenon, dovetails - because nobody had yet worked o…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Thornborough Bridge
Buckinghamshire
Thornborough’s six-arched stone bridge is Buckinghamshire’s only surviving medieval road bridge, retaining pedestrian refuges and the parish-bounda…
- Near Thornborough
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Treffry Viaduct
Cornwall
A 100-foot Cornish mining viaduct that carried both tramway and water power across Luxulyan Valley, binding quarries, mines and harbour into one in…
- Near Bodmin
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Trinity Bridge, Crowland
Lincolnshire
Built to cross two rivers at their fork, this medieval three-way bridge has stood over dry ground for more than three centuries since the waters it…
- Near Lincoln
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure
Turnbridge Lift Bridge
West Yorkshire
A canal bridge whose whole deck rises on chains and counterweights: windlass-worked from 1865, electric since 2002.
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Ulshaw Bridge
North Yorkshire
Ulshaw Bridge is a protected seventeenth-century River Ure crossing whose arches, cutwaters and refuges preserve the practical craft of a minor-roa…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Union Chain Bridge
Northumberland
The Union Chain Bridge’s 1820 span is the world’s oldest road-carrying suspension bridge, making an Anglo-Scottish crossing a landmark of engineeri…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Usk Bridge (Brecon)
Powys
A Tudor bridge widened in every century since, with a 1950s concrete bed its own record calls extremely ugly.
- Near Brecon
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Wensley Bridge
North Yorkshire
Four stone arches of three distinct dates and shapes sit side by side across the River Ure, funded by a medieval lord's will and rebuilt piecemeal…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Wetherby Bridge
West Yorkshire
A thirteenth-century bridge over the Wharfe whose repair bills have been argued over for seven hundred years, from a toll granted in 1315 to a maso…
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Aghalunny
County Tyrone
Aghalunny is a Tyrone townland whose protected Fairy Bridge and several Irish name traditions preserve both built and linguistic history.
- Near Coleraine
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Beaumont Cut
Essex
Beaumont Cut preserves a short-lived 19th-century canal over a possible Roman waterway, connecting rural Essex to London’s coastal trade and surviv…
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Chesters Bridge
Northumberland
Chesters Bridge preserves the massive eastern abutment of a Hadrian’s Wall crossing whose construction and recent reinterpretation reveal the North…
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Devil's Causeway
Northumberland
Devil’s Causeway is a 55-mile Roman road linking the Portgate near Corbridge with the Tweed estuary, connecting Hadrian’s Wall infrastructure to no…
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Newenden Bridge
Kent
Newenden Bridge is a largely intact 1706 Kent–Sussex joint project whose sandstone arches and original timbers preserve an early-modern River Rothe…
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