Listed Building record MDO15560 - Longham Bridge, Hampreston, Ferndown Town

A bridge carrying the road from Ringwood to Poole over the river Stour. The present bridge dates mainly from 1792 when an earlier bridge on the site was rebuilt and widened. This earlier bridge was build in 1728-9, replacing a timber bridge.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 27-28 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(4) Longham Bridge (064973), carrying the road from Ringwood to Poole over the R. Stour, has eleven segmental brick arches above stone piers with cutwaters, stone spandrels and brick parapets (Plate 26). The present structure dates mainly from 1792 when Antony Sergeant of Wimborne Minster undertook to rebuild and widen the bridge for £899, but it is likely to incorporate some part of the 'good strong stone bridge of 13 arches' which John Wagg of Ringwood built in 1728-9 for £2,000 (Quarter Sessions records, D.C.R.O.). Before this, the bridge had been of timber.'

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