page_title: River Frome, Somerset
section_title: Weirs and bridges
hierarchical_section_title: River Frome, Somerset / Weirs and bridges
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruins of a dyehouse, Willow Vale, Frome; listed building; example of industrial archaeology
context_page_description: The River Frome is a river in Somerset, England. It rises near Bungalow Farm on Cannwood Lane, south-west of Witham Friary, flows north through Blatchbridge to the town of Frome, and continues in a generally northerly direction to join the Bristol Avon at Freshford, below Bradford on Avon.
  The river is approximately 44 kilometres in length, comprising 15 km from its source to the confluence with Maiden Bradley Brook, 10 km through Frome to the confluence with the Mells River, and 18 km to the Avon. Below Frome the river passes close to Beckington, Rode, Tellisford, Farleigh Hungerford and Iford Manor.
  The name Frome comes from the Old British word ffraw meaning fair, fine or brisk and describing the flow of the river. The name was first recorded in 701 when Pope Sergius gave permission to Bishop Aldhelm to found a monastery "close to the river which is called From".
context_section_description: There are many weirs on the river. Several stretches, particularly below Farleigh Hungerford, are used for coarse fishing and some trout fishing.
  There are many bridges on the river.  In the centre of Frome, the first bridge perhaps appeared in the 14th century.  A later 16th-century bridge was widened in the 18th century and buildings were built across it. It remains one of only three bridges in England that have buildings across them; the others are the Pulteney Bridge in Bath and the High Bridge in Lincoln.  Other significant bridges include that at Wallbridge in Frome, dated 1634, upstream of the Frome bridge. Downstream are Rode bridge, a turnpike bridge from around 1777; Tellisford bridge, a packhorse bridge probably from the 17th century; Iford bridge, circa 1400; and Freshford bridge, 16th century.
caption: Ruins of a drying house, Willow Vale, Frome
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