Hartford Bridge, Over the River Blyth is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Bridge. 1 related planning application.
Hartford Bridge, Over the River Blyth
- WRENN ID
- blind-bastion-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Bridge
- Address
- Hartford Bridge, Over the River Blyth, A 1068, West Bedlington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 242 799
- Coordinates
- 55.11359, -1.62096
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartford Bridge, which spans the River Blyth, is a bridge dating from the 15th or 16th century. It was widened in 1688 and underwent further widening and partial rebuilding in 1904. The north arch features squared stone on the east side, while the remainder of the east face is made of tooled-and-margined stone. The west face consists of snecked rock-faced stone with ashlar voussoirs and a tooled-and-margined parapet, along with a brick soffit on the western part. The bridge has three segmental arches.
On the east face, there is a triple-chamfered arch from the 15th or 16th century on the right, accompanied by large triangular cutwaters that support shallow pilaster buttresses. There is a band below the parapet, which has chamfered coping, and low end piers. The west face features lower curved cutwaters with a moulded cornice and similar pilasters. The bridge is partly located in Blyth Valley District.
Local climate
Hartford Bridge, Over the River Blyth receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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