Scammonden Bridge

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.

In March 1962 a model of the 37-mile (60 km) section of the M62 was displayed in Wakefield, the administrative centre of the West Riding County Council.

The road crosses the M62 at around 1,017 feet (310 m) above sea level, northeast of Cow Gate Hill.

In 2020 work was carried out to erect permanent, 8 feet (2.4 m) high, inward curving anti-climb fencing on both sides of the bridge, following a number of deaths, in order to prevent suicides.

[7] Work began in June, nearly a year after Highways England confirmed they had secured the £1m required to design and build the new structures.

[8] The arch is made of modular precast concrete sections, weighing 9,000 tonnes (8,900 long tons).

Most of it was used to build the 249-foot (76 m) high Scammonden Dam across the Black Brook valley, which was the first motorway-dam project in the world.

The route of the carriageway was set out in July 1963 and the motorway cutting began work in August 1964.

Motorway under construction, below Pole Moor , in 1970