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The Worrall Covered Bridge, also known as the Woralls Bridge or Worral Bridge is a wooden
covered bridge A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...
carrying Williams Road across the Williams River in Rockingham,
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. Built about 1870, it is the only surviving 19th-century covered bridge in the town, after the Hall Covered Bridge collapsed in 1980 and was replaced in 1982, and the
Bartonsville Covered Bridge The Bartonsville Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge in the village of Bartonsville, in Rockingham, Vermont, United States. The bridge is a lattice truss style with a 151-foot span, carrying Lower Bartonsville Road over the Williams Rive ...
was washed away by
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in 2011 and replaced in 2012-2013. The bridge was listed on the
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in 1973. The bridge was damaged by the flooding on July 10, 2023, and the town decided almost a year later to repair it with FEMA funds.https://www.reformer.com/local-news/rockingham-awards-contract-for-repairs-to-two-covered-bridges/article_d403b3c6-1921-11ef-a64c-dfeb4d58c1db.html Rockingham awards contract for repairs to two covered bridges


Description and history

The Worrall Covered Bridge is located on Williams Road, a dirt road a short distance north of
Vermont Route 103 Vermont Route 103 (VT 103) is a north–south state highway in southern Vermont, United States. It runs from U.S. Route 5 (US 5) in Rockingham in the east to US 7 in Clarendon near Rutland in the west. The Vermont Country Store's second bra ...
, that generally parallels the Williams River on its north side, while VT 103 follows the river on the south side. The bridge is a
Town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
lattice truss A lattice truss bridge is a form of truss bridge that uses many small, closely spaced diagonal elements forming a lattice. The design was patented in 1820 by architect Ithiel Town. Originally a means of erecting a substantial bridge from mere p ...
structure, with a total span of and a total structure length of . The trusses rest on stone
abutments An abutment is the Bridge#Structure types, substructure at the ends of a bridge Span (architecture), span or dam supporting its Bridge#Structure types, superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end that provide vertical and l ...
that have been reinforced with concrete, and the road bed ( wide, or one lane) has been reinforced with laminated beams. It is topped by a gabled metal roof, and is sheathed in vertical board siding, with openings on its south side to improve traffic visibility. The bridge includes one rare feature — a wooden ramp leading up to the northwest entrance. The bridge was built in 1870 by Sanford Granger, a local master builder. Of seventeen 19th-century bridges once located in the town, it is the only one that remains. At the time of its National Register listing in 1973, there were three such bridges in Rockingham, but the other two have since been destroyed and replaced with new covered bridges (see above).


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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Vermont. See also *List of covered bridges in Vermont *List of non-authentic covered bridges in Vermont References

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List of covered bridges in Vermont Below is a list of covered bridges in Vermont. There are just over 100 authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Vermont, giving the state both the highest number of covered bridges per square mile and per capita in the United States, as we ...


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* {{NRHP in Windham County, Vermont Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Buildings and structures in Rockingham, Vermont Bridges completed in 1870 Wooden bridges in Vermont Covered bridges in Windham County, Vermont National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Lattice truss bridges in the United States