Loftsome Bridge - Loftsome, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 45.745 W 000° 55.884
30U E 636357 N 5959074
This triple arch concrete bridge carries the A63 over the River Derwent and replaced a former wooden swing bridge..
Waymark Code: WM13BPW
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/02/2020
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"Loftsome and Loftsome Bridge were small hamlets in the parish of Wressle. The Derwent was once crossed by a ferry at Loftsome. A swing bridge crossing of the Derwent was built at Loftsome in 1804, operated as a toll bridge.
There has been an inn at Loftsome Bridge since at least the 1800s. By 1823 the inn was known as the Loftsome Bridge Inn.
In the 1870s Loftsome's population was 20.
The original Loftsome Bridge remained in use to the early 1930s, at which time a new bridge was built for the Hull-Selby road (part of the A63)."
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The main arch carries the road over the River Derwent whilst the two smaller arches on either side carry the road over public footpaths along the river banks.