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Title: Oxygrains Bridge, Rishworth - TWA00251
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Title
Oxygrains Bridge, Rishworth - TWA00251
Description
OXYGRAINS BRIDGE, Rishworth, is a single-arch stone pack¬horse bridge without any Parapet, and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Watson wrote that the Ryburn stream "receives a considerable rivulet at the Ox-grains bridge, in the same township (Rishworth), so called from Osc, a very ancient word for water, and Grains, because it has two streams, which unite here, and therefore is, as it were, grained. . . ." This bridge was evidently replaced by the modern bridge taking the road across the stream when the Oldham turnpike road was made from Ripponden in 1795. There is an excellent photograph of this fine bridge in the Transactions for 1928 opposite page 1.
Creator
Tom Walker
Source
Olwen Forest
Date
1960 , 1960s
Rights
PHDA - Tom Walker Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
TWA00251.tif
Collection
Citation
Tom Walker, “Oxygrains Bridge, Rishworth - TWA00251,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/24638.
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