Wentbridge Viaduct

The location of the bridge is 10 mi north of Doncaster, 173 mi north of London, and 5 mi south of Ferrybridge. The viaduct straddles the valley of the River Went, with the village of Wentbridge to the west, and a nature reserve immediately to the east. Before the building of the Wentbridge Bypass, traffic was required to go through Wentbridge village on a "torturous descent" which created bottlenecks, and over a Medieval bridge which was very narrow in the village of Wentbridge itself, before another incline took the road out of the Went Valley. To alleviate these problems, the Wentbridge bypass, including a new bridge over the valley, was approved in 1959. Construction of the viaduct…