Winthorpe Bridge

Winthorpe Bridge
View in September 2012
Coordinates	53°06′N0°48′W / 53.10°N 0.80°W / 53.10; -0.80
OS grid reference	SK805567
Carries	A1
Crosses	River Trent
Locale	Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England
Maintained by	National Highways
Heritage status	Grade II* listed [1]
Characteristics
Material	Reinforced concrete
Total length	520 ft (160 m)
Width	82 ft (25 m)
Longest span	260 ft (79 m)
History
Constructed by	Christiani & Nielsen
Construction start	March 1962
Construction cost	£465,695
Opened	27 July 1964
Statistics
Daily traffic	A1 dual carriageway on the Newark bypass
Location

Winthorpe Bridge is a concrete box girder bridge, carrying the A1 road over the River Trent in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England.

History

The contracts for the bridge were awarded on 20 March 1962 for £495,695, and construction began on 16 July that year. The 6-mile (9.7 km) bypass was to cost £3,250,000. It was opened on 27 July 1964, by Ernest Marples.

The bridge was constructed by the Danish bridge-builder Christiani & Nielsen. ^[2] Another Danish civil engineering company Bierrum built the nearby cooling towers, along the River Trent to the north. The Newark bypass was built by Robert McGregor & Sons who would have laid the concrete pavement on the bridge. The north-bound surface had the concrete pavement laid in forty days, with three concrete-batching sites along the bypass preparing the concrete.

The bridge was Grade II* listed on 29 May 1998. ^[1]

Structure

The bridge crosses the River Trent in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, which is the third-longest river in England, at 185 miles (298 km). ^[3] It is a reinforced-concrete bridge made out of nine box girders. ^[4]

See also

• Grade II* listed buildings in Nottinghamshire
• Listed buildings in South Muskham

References

1. Historic England. "Winthorpe Bridge carrying bypass over River Trent (1323680)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 9 February 2017.
2. "The A1 By-Pass". Winthorpe with Langford Parish Council. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
3. "Walking the length of the river Trent via the Trent Valley Way". Trent Rivers Trust. 18 June 2024. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
4. "Listed Building: Winthorpe Bridge carrying bypass over River Trent (3.88.30)". Nottinghamshire Historic Environment Record. Nottinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 16 July 2025.

• Modern British bridges, 1 January 1965, Dorothy Henry, ISBN   0853340587

External links

• Winthorpe Bridge at SABRE Wiki