Bridge at Rocky Lane Lodge

Bridge at Rocky Lane Lodge, 2018. | Image courtesy of William Arnold
Bridge at Rocky Lane Lodge, 2018.
Image courtesy of William Arnold
Description of this historic site

A sandstone bridge dating to the Imperial period that crosses Rocky Lane at the northern end of Thickthorn Wood.

Notes about this historic site

1 A single span red sandstone bridge over Rocky Lane by the Lodge. No definite date is evident for the construction of the bridge, but the Lodge was at one time one of the entrances to Stoneleigh Park which could indicate a 19th century origin. The bridge could actually be earlier, as it connects Thickthorn Wood with Glasshouse Wood. A map of 1597 shows two roads crossing at this point, and as the roads are on different levels there must have been some sort of bridge.
2 Map of 1597.

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