Heyrod Bridge

Road bridge over the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway line, mid-late 1840s, by A S Jee. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings.

Heyrod Bridge (MVL3/9) is located at the junction of Spring Bank Lane and Wakefield Road in Heyrod, a semi-rural settlement within the township of Stalybridge, and carries Spring Bank Lane over the Huddersfield & Manchester Railway line. Due to the lie of the land the bridge slopes down eastwards. The bridge is similarly detailed on both sides and is constructed of coursed local sandstone with a segmental arched span incorporating rusticated voussoirs with tooled faces that springs from an ashlar impost band. Above the arch is a projecting carriageway band (designed like a stringcourse) and a low parapet of coursed stone with flat ashlar coping stones incorporating pyramidal stops. The projecting wing walls at the western end of the bridge are splayed and those to the east curve around to the south-east following the line of Spring Bank Lane. A small section at the base of the south parapet on the road side has been repaired using red brick.