Railway overbridge MVL3/20, Wright's Mill

The railway overbridge at Wright's Mill was built between 1845 and 1849 by A.S. Jee for the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway. It is made of buff sandstone and carries a footpath that crosses the railway from east to west, sloping down towards the east due to the gradients.

The bridge features a single segmental-arched span set between battered abutments on either side of a steep cutting, complete with a parapet. The stonework is regular-coursed and quarry-faced. The arch piers and voussoirs have tooled margins, with the keystone positioned above and below the arch. The impost bands, a sloping string course above the arch, and the chamfered and weathered parapet copings are all dressed. The abutments curve slightly outward at all four corners and end in slender piers topped with shallow, pyramidal caps. The arch soffit is made of narrow-coursed masonry with detailed tooling. At the time of the survey in 2017, the road surface was heavily overgrown.