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and its flood plain, also spanning the road between the two villages. It consists of fifteen arches—nine semi-elliptical arches spanning 24 feet (7.3 metres) and three 10-foot (3-metre) span ancillary arches on each side. Two of the ancillary arches on the western side have been bricked up and are
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