Iron Bridge, also known as County or Catherine's Bridge, is a grade II listed structure dating from 1820. (It's actually a masonry bridge - the iron handrails give the bridge it's name!)
Of the three main road bridges in the village, this is the only one that crosses the natural main River Avon. During World War two white lines were painted in the road on the western side of the bridge, to indicate where tank traps should be erected in the event of an invasion.
Heading east, the group of buildings on the left have at various times been used as the last venue of the village Unionist (Conservative) Club, a drapers shop, a corn merchants, a printers and an antiques shop.
Between 2 and 3 Mill Race View is the second, less well known, ‘Bunny' in The Borough (see Plaque 3). The ditch can still be seen on the opposite side of the road.
Former uses of some of the next set of buildings have included a flower shop, cycle dealers, wool shop and estate agents.
The walls around the modern day garden at the eastern end of these buildings were formerly those of Mont Edsall’s blacksmith’s shop, which was the last in operation in the village, closing in the 1970s. Barber’s and butcher’s shops and the George and Dragon public house were once sited on the opposite side of the road. The advertisement to the right is dated circa 1930.
The George and Dragon (now Dragon House), along with the Free and Easy (Heritage Trail Plaque 16) was possibly closed as a result of the activities of a Temperance Society instigated towards the end of the nineteenth century by the Earl of Radnor.
