Facts
- Overview
- Reconstructed covered bridge over Ashuelot River on Westport Village Road in Swanzey
- Location
- Cheshire County, New Hampshire
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1862; destroyed by arson March 8, 1993; reconstructed 2001
- Design
- Covered Lattice through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 123.0 ft.
Total length: 143.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.5 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.84722, -72.34028 (decimal degrees)
42°50'50" N, 72°20'25" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/717331/4747280 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- West Swanzey
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 29-03-06 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
NRHP 78000212 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 24858 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 65.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
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