Bigsweir Bridge
Monmouth, NP25 4TS, United Kingdom
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P8VJ+45 Monmouth, United Kingdom
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What self respecting bridge doesn't lead to a pub?!
Is quite pretty though and you can cross it which makes it functional as a bridge which is handy...given that's what it is.
There is no village at Bigsweir. The bridge is about 660 yd upstream of the fishing weir and ford of Bigsweir, which is close to Bigsweir House. Fishing rights at Bigsweir were mentioned in the Domesday Book. By 1331 the rights were held by the monks of Tintern Abbey, some 4 miles downstream of the weir (low dam) , and there were objections to the abbey raising the level of the weir and so impeding navigation.