Dow Bridge

Dow Bridge is a location in the English Midlands where the A5 road (the former Roman Watling Street) crosses the River Avon.

It is the point where the three counties of Warwickshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire meet, forming a tripoint.

The sixteenth century antiquary John Leland wrote 'Where this bridge is there were two smaller ones, the wider for carriages, the lesser, evidently Roman, for foot passengers and horses.'

The site was for centuries believed to have been the location of the Roman town of Tripontium, however this was later discovered around a mile to the north.

It is now disused having been replaced by a modern road bridge to the west which was built in the 1930s.