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Latitude: 53.6584 / 53°39'30"N
Longitude: -0.5283 / 0°31'41"W
OS Eastings: 497356
OS Northings: 418998
OS Grid: SE973189
Mapcode National: GBR SVR4.F9
Mapcode Global: WHGG1.V9MQ
Plus Code: 9C5XMF5C+9M
Entry Name: Horkstow Suspension Bridge
Listing Date: 25 September 1979
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1214853
English Heritage Legacy ID: 165839
ID on this website: 101214853
Location: North Lincolnshire, DN18
County: North Lincolnshire
Civil Parish: Horkstow
Traditional County: Lincolnshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire
Church of England Parish: Horkstow St Maurice
Church of England Diocese: Lincoln
Tagged with: Bridge
HUMBERSIDE
GLANFORD
5264
SE 91 NE HORKSTOW BRIDGE LANE
(west end)
7/39 Horkstow Suspension
Bridge
25.9.79
GV II*
Suspension bridge. 1834-5 by Sir John Rennie, engineer; Messrs John and
Edward Walker of Gospel Oak Ironworks, Tipton, Staffordshire, ironfounders,
for the Commissioners of the Ancholme Drainage and Navigation. Wrought iron
bridge with cast iron fittings, timber decking and rusticated ashlar
structural masonry with smooth-faced ashlar dressings. Overall length
70.75 metres (232 ft), span of chains 40.75 metres (133 ft 9 ins). Ashlar
suspension towers built into the sloping riverbanks; each has plinths and
tapering pilastered piers flanking a recessed keyed elliptical arch with a
moulded cornice and blocking course above. Rectangular chain ancorage
blocks at each side have plinths and caps. Two main chains of composite
bolted wrought iron links to each side, with vertical suspension rods from
each link supporting transverse timber bearers for the plank deck. Later
railings of 3 iron or steel strips clamped to suspension rods. A well-
preserved and elegantly designed example of an early suspension bridge, the
only known example by Sir John Rennie and one of the earliest unaltered
suspension bridges in the country. M J T Lewis, 'Horkstow Bridge',
Lincolnshire Industrial Archaeology, Vol 8, no 1, 1973, 2-9.
Listing NGR: SE9735618998
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