Kenwater Bridge

Kenwater Bridge – joining Broad Street and Bridge Street, two arches, stone; it was built in 1828 and cost £450. It was widened in 1939. The bridge was strengthened a few years ago by infilling with reinforced concrete. Leland recorded a stone bridge here in 1540. It was described in 1808 as very ruinous. The timber-framed “Black and White” house was the “Bridge Inn”, trading between the 1850s and 1910.

Waterloo House on the left was owned in the early 1800s by the Bannister family, wool merchants and wool staplers, who ran Bannister Mill which was slightly upstream on the Kenwater.