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Latitude: 51.8061 / 51°48'21"N
Longitude: -0.0508 / 0°3'2"W
OS Eastings: 534487
OS Northings: 213732
OS Grid: TL344137
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.L0T
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.2VJV
Plus Code: 9C3XRW4X+CM
Entry Name: Bridge at Ngr TL 3449 1373
Listing Date: 9 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268990
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461238
ID on this website: 101268990
Location: Pine Hurst, East Hertfordshire, SG13
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Hertford
Built-Up Area: Hertford
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Hertford All Saints
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Bridge
HERTFORD
TL3413NW THE NEW RIVER, THE KING'S MEAD
817-1/7/350 Bridge at NGR TL 3449 1373
II
Bridge, built to span the improved Hertford cut of the New
River. c1837. Curved cast-iron arch girders, 10 set close
together, with pierced spandrels, ornamental keystone, convex
chordal profile, approx 5m span, set between concave curved
abutments of yellow-brown stock bricks, English bond. Outer
arches and abutments carry cast-iron and wrought-iron post and
rail handrails.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the New River was constructed in 1608-13 by
Sir Hugh Myddelton to provide water for London, with a 38 mile
water course from Chadwell Spring, between Ware and Hertford.
By early C18 the supply had become inadequate. In 1739 a new
Act allowed water to be drawn from the River Lea near
Hertford, to be measured by gauges, designed by Robert Mylne
(1733-1811). The River Lee Act of 1855, gave the New River
Company the right to take the whole of the Lea water, with the
exception of that required for navigation. An improved cut was
made across the King's Meads, and a new Gauge House (qv),
designed by William Chadwell Mylne (1761-1862) was built in
1856.
(Thames Water: History of the New River: London: 1985-; The
industrial archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W:
Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-:
97-101 167).
Listing NGR: TL3448713732
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