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Roughway Bridge is a stone bridge located in Kent, England, with origins dating to the medieval period. The structure spans a watercourse and represents the type of modest masonry bridge construction typical of medieval English engineering, designed to facilitate local communication and trade routes across the Kentish landscape. Its listed status reflects its survival as a fabric witness to medieval infrastructure development in the region. The bridge's physical form and construction methods are consistent with medieval bridge-building practices, though like many such monuments it has likely undergone repair and modification across subsequent centuries.
Roughway Bridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004194. View the official record →
Roughway Bridge is a stone bridge located in Kent, England, with origins dating to the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004194.
Roughway Bridge is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1004194.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Old Soar Manor: a fortified medieval house (1.5 km), Ightham Mote Medieval moated site (3.2 km), Preceptory at Dukes Place (3.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roughway Bridge's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Roughway Bridge stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.