Scammonden Bridge

Scammonden Bridge
View east towards the reservoir
Coordinates	53°38′52″N 1°55′52″W / 53.6477°N 1.9310°W / 53.6477; -1.9310
Carries	B6144 road
Crosses	M62 motorway
Locale	Kirklees
Maintained by	National Highways
Characteristics
Design	Open spandrel fixed-arch
Material	Reinforced concrete
Total length	656 ft (200 m)
Width	24 ft (7.3 m)
Height	120 ft (37 m)
Longest span	410 ft (120 m)
No. of spans	1
History
Designer	Colonel Stuart Maynard Lovell
Constructed by	Sir Alfred McAlpine
Construction start	January 1967
Opened	18 May 1970
Inaugurated	14 October 1971
Location

Scammonden Bridge, also known locally as the Brown Cow Bridge (after the nearby Brown Cow Inn, now closed), spans the Deanhead cutting carrying the B6114 (the former A6025) Elland to Buckstones road over the M62 motorway in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The bridge and Scammonden Reservoir to the west are named after Scammonden, the village that was flooded to accommodate the reservoir whose dam carries the motorway. On opening, the bridge was the longest concrete arch bridge in the UK.^[1]