The Old Bridge Over The Hebden Water

SD 9927 HEBDEN ROYD C.P. BRIDGE GATE, Hebden Bridge

5/47 The Old Bridge over the Hebden Water (formerly 19.7.63 listed as Old Hebden Bridge)

G.V. II*

Packhorse bridge, c.1510. Has plaques recording repairs of 1600, 1602 and 1657. The parapet repaired in 1845 and raised in 1890. Large dressed stone. 3 segmental arches the voussoirs chamfered with 2 pointed breakwaters rising the full height of the parapet to the south west. Similar to north east but one is capped off at keystone level where a wall abuts. Three inscribed date plaques: REPAYRED: BY TH E.RIDINGE: BY ORD REPAIRED BY HELP OF ER: OF SESSIONS (B) Y GVST : 1657 RICHARD : NALER Y R.G.R.G. SESSIONS 1602 REPAIRED BY HELP OF JOHN : GREENMOOD SESSIONS 1600

The land arch to the east bank originally served the tail-goit of Bridge Mill (q.v.), once the XnnoriaJ Corn Mill. Scheduled Ancient Monument.Calder Civic Trust, Hebden Bridge Trail (Bolton, no date), p.5. D. Thomas, The Old Bridge, Hebden Bridge Lit. & Sci. Soc., Local History Booklets Vol. 3, (Hebden Bridge, 1982), p.3. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1967), p.260.

Listing NGR: SD9921727294