Country Bridge, Sowerby Bridge
Description: Country Bridge
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 July 1988
English Heritage Building ID: 339412
OS Grid Reference: SE0589823524
OS Grid Coordinates: 405898, 423524
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7081, -1.9121
Location: 1 Town Hall Street, Halifax, Calderdale HX6 2RG
Locality: Sowerby Bridge
Local Authority: Calderdale
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: HX6 2RG
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Listing Text
SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN HALL STREET
SE 0423 and SE 0523
12/280 County Bridge
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GV II
Road bridge. First stone bridge 1517, widened 1632 and again in 1875 (Sowerby
Bridge Guide, p 32; Sowerby Bridge Civic Society, p 6). Coursed squared stone and
cast iron. 3 shallow recessed round arches; triangular section cutwaters to south
side, eastern one rebuilt, and to east end on north side; the wider iron super-
structure of 1875, supported by the cutwaters on the southern side and by 2 round
piers on northern side, has latticed base and balustrade with round-ended panels
and panelled standards with pyramidal finials. The town was named after the bridge.
Sowerby Bridge Chamber of Trade and Commerce Official Tourist Guide.
Sowerby Bridge Civil Society, Sowerby Bridge Trail.
Listing NGR: SE0589823524
Source: English Heritage
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