Under the arches

Came for another picnic to Atcham. Such a beautiful day. The construction of the old bridge is quite amazing when you realise every stone had to be cut by hand and inserted without cranes!! Here I am under the single width bridge.
A bit of history - ´there is a record of a bridge at Atcham as early as the C13th and timber piles of this bridge may have been discovered during the construction of the new bridge. However, an alternative location may be just north of St. Eata’s church where a medieval bridge abutment was identified. In 1550 Sir Rowland Hill built a stone bridge with 18 arches which was replaced by the present bridge which dates from 1769-71 and designed by John Gwynn’.