Whorlton Suspension Bridge, Over The River Tees

Whorlton Suspension Bridge, built between 1829 and 1831 by John and Benjamin Green, is a suspension road bridge over the River Tees. It features rock-faced piers and tooled-and-margined stone pylons. The bridge has a wood-planked roadway supported by wrought-iron suspension chains and links, with a single span measuring almost 53 metres. The battered rectangular-plan piers rise from a massive plinth to a double blocking course, with each pier supporting two battered corniced pylons that flank the roadway and hold the blocks through which the double suspension chains pass. The roadway is situated 10 metres above the river and has plain railings that extend to octagonal end piers with corniced caps, except on the north-west side where the railings connect to a toll house. This bridge is a rare example of an unaltered early 19th-century suspension bridge and is partly located in Whorlton parish.