Historic Bridges of Buckinghamshire - Marshall G. Hall

Historic Bridges of Buckinghamshire

Buch | Hardcover
168 Seiten
2021
Windgather Press (Verlag)
978-1-911188-92-6 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
A lavishly-illustrated volume exploring the structure, history and chronology of historic bridges of Buckinghamshire.
Bridges have always played an important role on the social and economic history of human development, and Buckinghamshire has a great wealth of them. Trade systems and road networks must solve the challenges of geography’s waterways, and bridges, causeways, fords, and flood systems were necessarily a key aspect of the experience of historical travel. Bridges and river crossings anchored the Buckinghamshire road network in the landscape, and once established it proved remarkably durable.

Settlements, villages, and eventually cities have traditionally sprung up at bridgeheads or where a river could be crossed at any time of the year. Some examples in Buckinghamshire are Newport Pagnell, Buckingham, and Cookham. The most ancient, vital, and interesting architectural structures linked to use of these crossings are bridges, and people hold a deep fascination for them. There are literally thousands of bridges in Buckinghamshire, varying vastly in size, style, and materials. Many are stone, a few are wooden, and there

are numerous brick and more modern steel and concrete constructions.

The bridges featured in this book are more than 100 years old, mostly lie on public roads or rights-of way, are publicly accessible, and have a significant proportion of the original bridge intact. Through colour photographs, stories, and historical facts, this book looks at the wonderful historic bridges that make up the chronology of Buckinghamshire.

Marshall G. Hall is a retired UK university professor of Socio-anthropology who has held a lifelong interest in travel, architecture, linguistics, and adventure. Having written for academia for years, today Marshall writes, teaches the occasional university class as a guest lecturer, and does public speaking. In 2021, Marshall published Historic Bridges of Buckinghamshire for Windgather Press, and in 2022, Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 Bridges, 1000 Years was published, which was the first of a three-volume series on medieval bridges of England.

Introduction

Criteria for Inclusion

About the County of Buckinghamshire

Bridge Locations in Buckinghamshire

Basic Components of a Bridge

Rivers in Buckinghamshire

Bridge Types Based on Superstructure Construction

Bridge Types Based on Span

Listed Bridges and Structures

Scheduled Monuments

National Grid Reference Numbers

Alphabetical Bridge Listing

NORTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BRIDGES

River Tove

Castlethorpe Station Road Bridge

River Great Ouse

Turvey Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Olney Bridge

Goosey Bridge

Tyringham Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Little Linford Lane Bridge

Sherington Road Bridge

North Bridge – Newport Pagnell

Leckhampstead Bridge

Water Stratford Road Bridge

Radclive-cum-Chackmore Bridge

Old Stratford Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

London Road Bridge – Buckingham

Old Farm Bridge

Lord’s Bridge

Cosgrove Iron Trunk Aqueduct

River Ouzel

Tickford Iron Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Stowe Landscape Gardens

Palladian Bridge

Oxford Bridge

Shell Bridge

River Thame

Holman’s Bridge

Eythrope Park Bridge

Wotton Underwood Bridge

Bridgeway Bridge – Cuddington

Hartwell House Bridge

Thame Bridge

Ickford Bridge / Whirlpool Arch Bridge

Padbury Brook

Thornborough Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Oxlane Bridge

Claydon House Bridge

Three Bridges Mill

Shipton Brook Bridge

MID-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BRIDGES

River Chess

Chesham Town Bridge

Bois Moor Road Bridge

Stoney Lane Bridge

Chenies Hill Bridge

Chenies Place Woodside

River Misbourne

Missenden Abbey Bridges

Highmore Cottages Bridge

Mill Lane Bridge

Priory Bridge

Village Road Bridge

Old Bridge at Denham Place

Old Mill Road Bridge

SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BRIDGES

River Wye

West Wycombe Park Bridges

Pepperpots Bridge

Queen Victoria Bridge

Pann Mill Bridge

Windsor Hill Bridge

Hughenden Stream

Hughenden Manor Bridge

Colne Brook

Iver Bridge

River Colne

Iver Lane Bridge

Thorney Mill Road Bridge

Frays River

Rockingham Road Bridge

Stoke Park

Repton Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

River Thames

Cookham Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Maidenhead Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Marlow Bridge – FEATURE BRIDGE

Bridge Glossary

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Colour
Verlagsort Macclesfield
Sprache englisch
Maße 280 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Technik Bauwesen
ISBN-10 1-911188-92-5 / 1911188925
ISBN-13 978-1-911188-92-6 / 9781911188926
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