List of crossings of the River Wear

This is a list of crossings of the River Wear, heading downstream, including road and rail bridges and fords.

Wearhead to Stanhope

• Wearhead Bridge (road)
• West Blackdene Bridge (road, foot?)
• Ireshopeburn Bridge (road?, foot?)
• Coronation Bridge (road, foot?)
• Newhouse Pastures Ford (road, foot?)
• St John's Chapel Footbridge (1) (foot)
• Ponderlane Bridge (road?, foot?)
• St John's Chapel Ford (road, foot?)
• St John's Chapel Footbridge (2) (foot)
• Daddry Shield bridge, A689 (road)
• Westgate Ford (road, foot?)
• Westgate Bridge (road, foot?)
• Eastgate Cement Works bridge (rail goods - disused)
• Eastgate Rail Bridge (rail - disused)
• Hag Bridge (road, foot)

Stanhope to Bishop Auckland

• Stanhope Rail Bridge (1) (rail - disused)
• Stanhope Bridge, B6278 (road, foot?)
• Stanhope Ford (road, foot?)
• Stanhope Rail Bridge (2) (rail - disused)
• Stanhope Rail Bridge (3) (rail)
• Bridge at Stanhope Burn (road, foot?)
• Rail bridge near Rogerley (rail)
• Frosterley Bridge (road)
• Footbridge at Frosterley (foot)
• Frosterley Rail Bridge (rail)
• Frosterley Ford (road, foot?)
• Bridge near Hare Law (road, foot?)
• Wolsingham Bridge (road, foot?)
• Wolsingham Rail Bridge (rail)
• Footbridge near Low Harperley (foot)
• A68 bridge (road)
• Whitton Bridge (road, foot?)
• Witton Park Rail Viaduct (rail)
• Ford at Witton Park (road, foot?)

Bishop Auckland to Durham

• Bishop Skirlaw Bridge (road)
• Bishop Auckland Viaduct, A689 (road)
• Cobey's Carr Lane (road, foot)
• Page Bank Bridge (road)
• Croxdale Viaduct (rail)
• Sunderland Bridge (road)
• Croxdale Bridge, A167 (road)

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  Croxdale Viaduct

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  Sunderland Bridge

Durham to Chester-le-Street

• Shincliffe Bridge, A177 (road)
• Maiden Castle Bridge (foot)
• Baths Bridge (foot)
• New Elvet Bridge (road)
• Elvet Bridge (road, pedestrianised)
• Kingsgate Bridge (foot)
• Prebends Bridge (road, pedestrianised)
• Framwellgate Bridge (road, pedestrianised)
• Milburngate Bridge, A690 (road, foot)
• Pennyferry Bridge (foot)
• Viaduct at Raintonpark woods (rail - disused)
• Finchale Priory / Cocken Woods Bridge (foot)
• Cocken Bridge (road)

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  Elvet Bridge

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  Pennyferry Bridge

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  Cocken Bridge

Chester-le-Street to Sunderland

• Lumley Bridge, B1284 (road)
• A1(M) bridge (road)
• Lambton Bridge, Chester Road A183 (road)
• Chester New Bridge (road)
• Lamb Bridge, Lambton estate (private)
• New Bridge, Lambton estate (private)
• Chartershaugh Bridge, Washington Highway A182 (road)
• Fatfield Bridge (road)
• Victoria Viaduct (rail, disused)
• Cox Green Footbridge (foot)

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  Chartershaugh Bridge

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  Fatfield Bridge

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  Victoria Viaduct

Sunderland to the North Sea

• Hylton Viaduct, A19 (road)
• Bridge at Claxheugh - proposed (road, foot)
• Bridge at Galley's Gill - proposed (foot)
• Queen Alexandra Bridge, A1231 (road, foot)
• Wearmouth Rail Bridge (rail/Tyne and Wear Metro)
• Wearmouth Bridge, A1018 (road, foot)

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  Hylton Viaduct

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  Queen Alexandra Bridge

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  Wearmouth Rail Bridge and Wearmouth Bridge