World Heritage Day

For a moderately sized village, it’s quite cool that we have over 20 listed buildings/ monuments.
I have blipped quite a few of them in the past, but for this years World Heritage Day I thought it was the turn of an often overlooked listed monument.
This milestone is coming up to its 200th anniversary, it dates back to 1829. For something that is now so unnecessary, to have survived that long is worth celebrating in its own right.
The sandstone wall it rests against is itself part of a listed structure, the skew bridge (see extra). That is the same age, 1829, and was one of the first skew bridges. In profile it forms a perfect arch, but it crosses the railway at an angle of 34°. The skill required to have carved each stone with the precise curves to not just meet adjoining stones seamlessly, but to finish with a perfect arch 54ft wide is mind boggling.
I take my hat off to you Mr Stephenson.