Ditchford Bridge and Attached Causeway (That Part in Wellingborough Civil Parish) is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Bridge.

Ditchford Bridge and Attached Causeway (That Part in Wellingborough Civil Parish)

WRENN ID
roaming-quartz-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Bridge
Period
Medieval
Address
Ditchford Bridge and Attached Causeway (That Part in Wellingborough Civil Parish), Ditchford Road, Irchester
OS grid reference
SP 930 683
Coordinates
52.30513, -0.63711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ditchford Bridge, dating from 1330 and restored in 1927, has medieval origins. The bridge is constructed from squared coursed ironstone and limestone, featuring ashlar dressings. It has six semi-circular double-chamfered and stepped arches with large cutwaters in between. The plain parapet is partly corbelled out and includes pedestrian recesses above the cutwaters. At both ends, the bridge is approached by a causeway with three semi-circular arches. An inscribed tablet on the east elevation commemorates the 1927 restoration, and a datestone in the parapet behind the tablet is from the same period. The bridge is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.

Local climate

Ditchford Bridge and Attached Causeway (That Part in Wellingborough Civil Parish) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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