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In the upper reaches of the Thames, the river depth was raised by dams and in the lower reaches it was raised by embankments, so gradually most fords were lost. [1] At least one regular ford remains, at Duxford. Many of the present road bridges over the river are on the sites of earlier fords, ferries and wooden structures.
A view of bridges in the City of London, looking westwards (upstream): Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge. List of bridges in London lists the major bridges within Greater London or within the influence of London. Most of these are river crossings, and the best-known are those across the River Thames. Several bridges on other rivers have given ...
Pedestrian bridges across the River Thames (23 P) Pages in category "Bridges across the River Thames" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.
A source-to-mouth channel of the Thames can be traced that has 138 open bridges when the festival mentioned above is not on and does not have its extra bridge over the single channel, in which case 139; however if every bridge to a Thames island, such island with a link to both banks is counted, there are 85 more (mainly due to the channels dug or formalised in Ashton Keynes and Oxford ...
The river gives its name to three informal areas: the Thames Valley, a region of England around the river between Oxford and West London; the Thames Gateway; and the greatly overlapping Thames Estuary around the tidal Thames to the east of London and including the waterway itself.
Name County Locality Date Grade Notes A34 Road Bridge: Oxfordshire: Oxford: 1961: spans the River Thames: A419 Road Bridge: Wiltshire: Cricklade: 1988: spans the River Thames: Abingdon Bridge
Notable pedestrian-only bridges crossing the River Thames Pages in category "Pedestrian bridges across the River Thames" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The name "London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London since Roman times. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It replaced a 19th-century stone-arched bridge, which in turn ...