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Reference no. 1228914
Description: The Old Bridge over the Hebden Water
Address: The Old Bridge Bridge Gate Hebden Bridge Calderdale
Grade: IISTAR
Group detail: Bridge Gate, Hebden Bridge
Full description:
The Old Bridge over the Hebden Water (formerly 19.7.63 listed as Old Hebden Bridge)
Packhorse bridge, c1510. Has plaques recording repairs of 1600, 1602 and 1657. The parapet repaired in 1845 and raised in 1890. Large dressed stone. 3 segmental arches the voussoirs chamfered with 2 pointed breakwaters rising the full height of the parapet to the south west. Similar to north east but one is capped off at keystone level where a wall abuts. Three inscribed date plaques:
"REPAYERED: BY TH,
E.RIDINGE: BY ORD,
ER: OF SESSIONS,
(B) Y GVST : 1657,
Y R.G.R.G.".
"REPAIRED BY HELP OF,
RICHARD : NALER,
SESSIONS 1602".
"REPAIRED BY HELP OF,
JOHN : GREENWOOD,
SESSIONS 1600".
The land arch to the east bank originally served the tail-goit of Bridge Mill (q.v.), once the Manorial Corn Mill.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Calder Civic Trust, Hebden Bridge Trail (Bolton, no date), p.5.
D. Thomas, The Old Bridge, Hebden Bridge lit. & Sci. Soc., Local History Booklets Vol. 3, (Hebden Bridge, 1982), p.3.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1967), p.260.
