Ridgemoor Bridge

Ridgemoor Bridge, a pleasant single stone arch, was widened in 1940 and takes Mill Street, the A44, over the River Lugg a little way east of the level crossing. It crossed Ridgemoor Brook before the River Lugg’s new channel was dug in the 1960s diverting the river to this point. It would seem to date from about 1815 as Townsend refers to a new bridge being constructed in the Stockton road at that time. It has been strengthened with concrete infill.

Blacklock records: “Ridgmoor Bridge, a single arch over the Ridgmoor, on the Ludlow Road or Comish Way, just beyond the Railway Crossing, marks the Borough boundary in that direction. It had originally more than one arch.”

In 1758 the earlier bridge was recorded in the Court Leet as needing the repair of ‘one half’ of the bridge.