Civil Engineering Heritage: Eastern and central EnglandE. A. Labrum Britain has a heritage of civil engineering works unrivalled anywhere. The skills of past engineers are in evidence throughout the land in the infrastructure. This work is suitable for the technical and non-technical reader, and the area covered in it reaches from the Humber to the Thames and from East Anglia to central England. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Humberside and North Lincolnshire | 42 |
South Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire | 70 |
Norfolk and North Suffolk 110 | 143 |
Hertfordshire Bedfordshire and North Buckinghamshire | 178 |
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire | 206 |
Warwickshire and North Oxfordshire | 238 |
Site index | 264 |
Index of engineers architects and contractors | 269 |
Common terms and phrases
ancient bridges Aqueduct Barnes Bedford Braunston brick Bridge HEW bridges of mid built Cambridge carried cast-iron century concrete construction County Coventry Coventry Canal Cromford Cromford Canal crosses cutwaters David and Charles deck Derby Derwent diameter Drain drainage East Midlands eastern England flood Foxton ft high ft long ft span ft wide Further reading JERVOISE girders Grand Junction Canal Grand Union Canal Humber Instn Civil Engineers Ipswich John Leicester Lincolnshire locks London mid and eastern miles mill navigation Nene Newton Abbot Norwich opened original Oxford Canal Packhorse Bridge parapet piers President Instn Civil rail replaced reservoir ribs River Avon River Great Ouse River Nene River Trent road route segmental arch side sluice Sough spandrels station stone structure Swing Bridge Thomas Telford timber tower towpath traffic trough tunnel upstream valley viaduct walls Warwick William Windmill Witham