Known from historical cartography as the "New Bridge", it sits about 150 metres east of the town's surviving medieval crossing and has, by all appearances, vanished entirely from the ground. No stonework, no abutments, no outline in the soil; only a name on an old map confirms it ever existed at all.

The source is a map drawn by Thomas Stuish in 1681 and later copied in 1765 by a cartographer named Richard Frizell. That map distinguishes clearly between the "Old Bridge", which corresponds to the still-standing crossing between Upper and Lower Bridge Street, and this separate "New Bridge" to the east. The label "new" is a tricky thing in historical placenames; it could reflect a seventeenth-century construction, or the name could have attached itself to an older structure and simply persisted across generations, as such names often do. What the map suggests about its purpose is perhaps more telling than its date. The bridge appears to have sat at the point where Clothier's Lane runs northward from Mill Street, formerly known as East Street, down to the River King. That route would have given access to the Abbey lands on the northern bank, linking the town's commercial and ecclesiastical zones across the water. The lane name itself hints at the cloth trade that once gave the area its character.