Old Tramway Bridge (Formerly Wireworks Bridge) is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 2010. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Old Tramway Bridge (Formerly Wireworks Bridge)
- WRENN ID
- veiled-wicket-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 2010
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Old Tramway Bridge (Formerly Wireworks Bridge), A466, Hewelsfield and Brockweir, Forest of Dean, NP16 6SE
- OS grid reference
- SO 530 003
- Coordinates
- 51.69955, -2.68115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Tramway Bridge, formerly known as the Wireworks Bridge, was built in 1875 by S.H. Yockney from Victoria Street, Westminster. It features plate girder construction, with a cast iron parapet and stone abutments and piers.
The bridge has a wrought iron three truss-girder span, with three sets of riveted cross-braced ironwork on the sides. The girders and roadway connect to sandstone parapets at both ends, which are set within stone abutments on raised river embankments. The north-west abutment, on the English side, includes two flood arches. The center of the bridge is supported by two large rubble sandstone piers. The ironwork is painted, and the former trackway has been replaced with timber boarding. The stonework is made from Forest of Dean Stone, a type of sandstone, and is finished as coursed rubble. The abutments are located sixty-five meters apart, rising to support the elevated bridge, allowing clearance for tall-masted river vessels. Stone parapets and walling line the track at either end of the bridge.
Local climate
Old Tramway Bridge (Formerly Wireworks Bridge) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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