Lugg Bridge

Lugg Bridge – long gone, it was at the junction of Bridge Street and Mill Street; the water was removed about 1968 but it had been culverted for some time before that date. It is not known when this bridge was constructed but the stone bridge was in position by circa 1540 when John Leland visited the town. He recorded this as being one of the three stone bridges in the town “and, as I remember, it is the greatest of the three [bridges], and hath most arches”. It was demolished some time after 1832 when the course of the old River Lugg was culverted.

Until c.1968 the Lugg had run parallel to Marsh Street and then, turning east at the bridge, had run along Mill Street to Marsh Mill.