Site of Medieval Gunnings Bridge, Alcester.

Description of this historic site

The site of the Medieval Gunnings Bridge which is known from documentary evidence. It was situated at the corner of Kinwarton Road and School Road, Alcester.

Notes about this historic site

1 ‘Gunnyld bridge’ is mentioned in 1274. There are references to it also in 1543 and 1612. In 1612 the bridge was falling down and Sir Fulke Greville undertook to build ‘a good stone bridge…’ In 1667 there was a dispute over who was responsible to repair the bridge. A map of 1752 shows a very narrow bridge. The present bridge [PRN 5293], of three arches in red brick with stone dressings and modern parapets, may well have been built in 1814.
2 Photographed in 1978.

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