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Latitude: 52.9778 / 52°58'40"N
Longitude: -2.9629 / 2°57'46"W
OS Eastings: 335442
OS Northings: 342704
OS Grid: SJ354427
Mapcode National: GBR 77.JDSD
Mapcode Global: WH89C.GFB0
Plus Code: 9C4VX2HP+4R
Entry Name: Overton Bridge
Listing Date: 15 March 1994
Last Amended: 15 March 1994
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 14485
Building Class: Transport
ID on this website: 300014485
Location: Spans the River Dee at the boundary of Overton and Erbistock Communities, approximately 3km NW of the Overton.
County: Wrexham
Community: Overton (Owrtyn)
Community: Overton
Locality: Overton Bridge
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Bridge
Built in 1814 by Thomas Penson the younger, completing the work of Thomas Penson, who was dismissed after the collapse of his first design for a single-arched bridge on this site, itself replacing an earlier structure.
Red sandstone ashlar bridge with 2 high segmental arches divided be knelled cutwaters at each side. Rusticated voussoirs to arches, with moulded string course above defining the base of the stepped parapet. Buttressed retaining wall supports the road-bed across the field to the east: coursed and squared rubble with ashlar parapet.
An elegantly designed example of bridge construction.
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