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.
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This lavishly illustrated book provides a catalogue of 58 bridges in the historic county of Buckinghamshire: 32 in the centre and north of the county and 26 in the south. ... The author has gone to considerable lengths to find obscure bridges on footpaths (no.14 on the edge of Buckingham) or scarcely visible beneath minor roads (no.1 at Castlethorpe).
The book was clearly a labour of love, and it would make a good present for anyone interested in Buckinghamshire. * The Local Historian * ...a very beautiful publication and the presentation of information is superb. Quite apart from the impressive and delightful box elements, I particularly appreciated the really useful statistics, tabulated adjacent to the prose, and also the way he has incorporated information about the surrounding town and landscape, for each bridge. The insets about the engineer were also novel- and most interesting. * Scotland's Oldest Bridges *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Macclesfield
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 282 mm
Breite: 220 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-911188-92-6 (9781911188926)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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
