Monument record 354/3 - Wrenbury Frith Bridge

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 422446 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farm bridge. c.1790. By Thomas Telford. Timber. Single span. A wooden platform formed of planks laid between timber beams spans the river at the level of, the bank. This is hinged at its northern edge and raised and lowered by a counterbalancing beam weight which is supported by two posts of square section on the northern bank which carry two horizontal beams which have chains to their southern ends connecting with the platform of the bridge and a weight to their northern end. Iron tension rods run from the vertical beams to the ends of the horizontal beams. There are three such bridges in the parish.