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Wet Moor Bridge

A Grade II Listed Building in Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5063 / 53°30'22"N

Longitude: -1.3535 / 1°21'12"W

OS Eastings: 442975

OS Northings: 401259

OS Grid: SE429012

Mapcode National: GBR LWZW.RT

Mapcode Global: WHDD5.54QC

Plus Code: 9C5WGJ4W+GH

Entry Name: Wet Moor Bridge

Listing Date: 21 August 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1286501

English Heritage Legacy ID: 335567

ID on this website: 101286501

Location: West Melton, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S63

County: Rotherham

Electoral Ward/Division: Hoober

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wath upon Dearne

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Wath Upon Dearne All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Sheffield

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Description


SE40SW WATH UPON DEARNE WET MOOR LANE

2/59 Wet Moor Bridge


II


Bridge. c1800. Coursed, squared sandstone; tooled ashlar voussoirs.
Single span. Rusticated elliptical arch with band-rusticated ashlar
soffit. Projecting end piers linked by ashlar band beneath parapet.
Wing walls curve out at north end but turn abruptly in alignment with
approach road to south. Chamfered copings some missing. Crossed the
Dearne and Dove Canal constructed following an act of 1793 and opened
in 1804 but now infilled in this parish.

Charles Hadfield, The Canals of Yorkshire and North-East England,
vol 2, 1973, pp280-290.


Listing NGR: SE4297501259

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