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The Grade II Listed Dinham Bridge over the River Teme, in Ludlow, Shropshire.

Dinham Bridge was built by Thomas Telford in 1823 and was originally known as New Bridge. The bridge was designed by John Straphen of Shrewsbury. However, earlier bridges did cross the river here and it is thought that the 14th century Mortimer's Tower at Ludlow Castle controlled the rear exit from the castle down to Dinham Bridge and the most direct route to Wigmore and Wales.

The alignment of the former wooden structure can be seen just downstream. Only one arch remains of the original bridge, the arch on the far bank nearest the castle is from Thomas Telford’s original bridge.

The Ludlow weirs were navigation Flash Lock weirs until the railways came to the Teme valley. Sailing Trows from the Severn worked up the river with wheat for the mills from Gloucester returning with flour for the villages and iron bar from Downton for blacksmiths downstream.

An 1820’s painting shows the old Dinham Bridge with four square rigged trows unloading at Dinham Mill (now Mr Underwoods restaurant) and other trows at the opposite bank and under full sail up to the Downton Gorge. Although much of the painting is thought to have come from the artist’s imagination.

Dinham Bridge is constructed of Whitcliffe Beds, a calcareous siltstone from Whitcliffe Quarry, with lintels of Carboniferous Highley Stone, was in Georgian and Victorian times the material of choice for the construction of many of the bridges over the River Seven.

Information Source:
www.witchphotographer.com/ludlow/ludlow-dinham-bridge-and...

Taken in: UK / England / Ludlow (show map)

Taken on: July 3, 2014

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Camera: Nikon D7100, f/8.0, 1/250 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

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