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Latitude: 51.8059 / 51°48'21"N
Longitude: -0.0505 / 0°3'1"W
OS Eastings: 534503
OS Northings: 213717
OS Grid: TL345137
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.L1Y
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.2VMY
Plus Code: 9C3XRW4X+9Q
Entry Name: Bridge at Ngr TL 3451 1372
Listing Date: 9 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268991
English Heritage Legacy ID: 461239
ID on this website: 101268991
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
TL3413NE THE NEW RIVER, THE KING'S MEAD
817-1/7/351 Bridge at NGR TL 3451 1372
II
Bridge, built to span the Hertford cut of the New River. 1817.
Prefabricated cast-iron girder bridge with perforated
spandrels, ornamental keystones with date. Convex chordal
profile, span approx. 4.5m, rise approx. 450 mil. Inscribed
'New River Co', 'Priestfield Iron Works near Bilston'
(Staffordshire). Outer arches carry cast 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 1855 gave the New River Company
and the East London Waterworks 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: TL3450313716
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