Building record MDR16472 - Chevin Road Bridge, Chevin Road, Milford, Belper

A Grade II listed single-span skew overbridge carrying the Chevin Road, built 1836-40 for the North Midland Railway and standing within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. Chevin Road Bridge is listed at Grade II as an early example of a railway structure dating from the pioneering phase in national railway development. It is a remarkably unaltered bridge that is well preserved, forming part of the North Midland Railway designed by George and Robert Stephenson, among the greatest and most influential of all railway engineers, with their assistant Frederick Swanwick. It is an example of the consistently high quality design and careful detailing of railway structures completed for the North Midland Railway. The aesthetic quality of the bridge far exceeds the functional and structural requirements of bridge design. It is also one of the earliest type of railway skew-arched bridges in the world built according to the ‘helicoidal’ system of construction, possessing group value with the north portal of Milford Tunnel, 65m to the south. See list description for more detail. (1)