Victoria Bridge over the River Severn(Scan from 2000)

Worcestershire Walks, Various


Folder: Worcestershire Walks

09 May 2019

101 visits

Victoria Bridge over the River Severn(Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles). The Victoria Bridge is a 200 ft single span railway bridge crossing the River Severn between Arley and Bewdley in Worcestershire. Opened for traffic on 31 January 1861, the original railway line was closed in 1963. The bridge now carries the operational heritage Severn Valley Railway. Its design is almost identical to Albert Edward Bridge which also spans the Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, both having been designed by John Fowler. Victoria Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge, with four arch ribs each of nine parts bolted together. The arch elements were cast by the Coalbrookdale Company, and the bridge built by the company of Thomas Brassey, Samuel Morton Peto and Edward Betts. It features in the film 'The Thirty-nine Steps' with Robert Powell in the leading role.

09 May 2019

93 visits

Victoria Bridge over the River Severn (Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles). The Victoria Bridge is a 200 ft single span railway bridge crossing the River Severn between Arley and Bewdley in Worcestershire. Opened for traffic on 31 January 1861, the original railway line was closed in 1963. The bridge now carries the operational heritage Severn Valley Railway. Its design is almost identical to Albert Edward Bridge which also spans the Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England, both having been designed by John Fowler. Victoria Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge, with four arch ribs each of nine parts bolted together. The arch elements were cast by the Coalbrookdale Company, and the bridge built by the company of Thomas Brassey, Samuel Morton Peto and Edward Betts. It features in the film 'The Thirty-nine Steps' with Robert Powell in the leading role.

10 May 2019

94 visits

Looking towards the Abberley Hills with the Clock Tower just visible on the right (Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles).

16 May 2019

109 visits

Trig Point (283m) at Abberley (Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles).

04 Mar 2011

87 visits

Clock Tower at Abberley (Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles). The Clock Tower at Abberley is a Grade II* Listed building and claimed to be visible from six counties.

04 Mar 2011

89 visits

Looking towards Herefordshire Beacon (Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles).

16 May 2019

111 visits

Chase Hill Trig Point (191m) (Scan from 2000)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles). Late afternoon on a cold January afternoon 2001. Here we had extended the walk to Chase Hill and the Trig Point at (191m)

04 Mar 2011

89 visits

Looking across Whiteleaved Oak to Ragged Stone Hill from Chase Hill Trig Point (191m)

Picture taken while walking the Worcestershire Way, a 48 mile long-distance path from Kingsford Country Park to Hollybush at the southern end of the Malvern Hills. (Now revised to 31 miles). Here we had extended the walk to Chase Hill and the Trig Point at (191m). It was a cold murky January afternoon in 2001, and looking across Whiteleaved Oak to Ragged Stone Hill. The obelisk at Eastnor can just be made out.