
Skew Bridge

There is a bridge here which takes a disused railway over the canal.
Nutshell Bridge | 4¼ furlongs | |
Stonehouse Wharf | 2¾ furlongs | |
Stonehouse Bridge | 2¼ furlongs | |
Upper Mills Bridge | 1¾ furlongs | |
Wycliffe College Former Boathouse | 1¼ furlongs | |
Skew Bridge | ||
Hayward's Bridge | ¼ furlongs | |
Ryeford Winding Hole | 1¾ furlongs | |
Ryeford Bridge | 2 furlongs | |
Ryeford Wharf | 2¼ furlongs | |
Ryeford Swing Bridge | 2½ furlongs |
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In the direction of Site of Entrance to Wallbridge Basin
Nearest self-operated pump-out
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Nearest boatyard pump-out
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Wikipedia has a page about Skew Bridge
A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle. This results in the faces of the arch not being perpendicular to its abutments and its plan view being a parallelogram, rather than the rectangle that is the plan view of a regular, or "square" arch.
In the case of a masonry skew arch, the construction requires precise stonecutting, as the cuts do not form right angles, but once the principles were fully understood in the early 19th century, it became considerably easier and cheaper to build a skew arch of brick.
The problem of building skew arch masonry bridges was addressed by a number of early civil engineers and mathematicians, including Giovanni Barbara (1726), William Chapman (1787), Benjamin Outram (1798), Peter Nicholson (1828), George Stephenson (1830), Edward Sang (1835), Charles Fox (1836), George W. Buck (1839) and William Froude (c. 1844).