The starkwater has a sharpened upstream edge sometimes called a "cutwater". A difficult, eccentric millionairess named Edwina Cutwater (Tomlin) has been bedridden since childhood. Each of its seven bays has a cutwater and arch supporting the roadway and parapet. The bridge's pier extends to the east (upstream) side which forms a low-level cutwater. Its distillery was spun off to a new company, Cutwater Spirits, in 2017. It has two arches and one cutwater, and may be 15th century. In early 2015, BNY Mellon acquired US-based fixed income and solutions specialist Cutwater Asset Management.