Description

SOUTH CERNEY SPINE ROAD
SU 09 NE
(west side)
9/268 Former road bridge on
dismantled railway
II
Former road bridge on dismantled Midland and South-West Junction
Railway, by-passed by Spine Road to east. Line opened 1870s, from
Cheltenham to Andover via Swindon. Red brick with blue brick
coping. Total length about 60m with 10 splayed arches rising in
gentle curve with transverse supporting walls pierced by 2 round-
headed and round-based hollow arches forming view from end to end.
Total width about 5 or 6m. Four projecting courses of brick run
above the 4 courses which form the "voussoirs". Piers at south end
only. This remains an important landscape element as well as
being a historic reminder of the former railway line.

Listing NGR: SU0635896270

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26625134

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)