Withypool Bridge At Ngr Ss 8452 3545

Withypool Bridge is a 19th-century road bridge over the River Barle, originally shown on the Ordnance Survey map as New Bridge. It was restored in 1866 by John Buslin and William Browner and Son, and again in 1983 by Somerset County Council. The bridge features flat bedded slate and red sandstone chamfered blocks that form the parapets. It has six arches with cutwaters that rise to the springers of the arches, which continue as buttresses just below the coping of the parapet. The coping is dressed flat bedded slate, and the parapets rake back, terminating with buttress piers on the northeast and southwest ends. The date 1983 is set in pebbles on the breakwater. This bridge replaced an earlier bridge located about 100 meters upstream. It is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument (Somerset County No 26B).