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            Ludlow, Shropshire, West Midlands

Ludlow’s Dinham Bridge was built in 1823. Sometimes attributed to Thomas Telford, who was Shropshire’s surveyor at the time the bridge was built, it was in fact the work of Shrewsbury mason and contractor John Straphen. 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 bridge is grade II listed.

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. 

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

Taken on: April 21, 2022

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