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Goring and Streatley Bridge

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Carries
  
B4009

Material
  
Timber and metal

Location
  
Carry
  
B4009

Crosses
  
Opened
  
1923

Body of water
  
Goring and Streatley Bridge httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Locale
  
Goring-on-ThamesStreatley

Height
  
16 feet 11 inches (5.16 m)

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Goring and Streatley Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. The bridge links the twin villages of Goring-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, and Streatley, Berkshire, and is adjacent to Goring Lock.

The present bridge was built in 1923, and is in two parts: The western bridge is from Streatley to an island in the river (overlooking The Swan hotel, once owned by Danny La Rue); The eastern bridge is from the island to Goring and overlooks Goring Lock. The bridge consists of timber struts supporting a metal roadway.

Both the Thames Path and The Ridgeway cross the Thames on this bridge.

A bridge was first built here in 1837 being a flat timber bridge of beams on posts. Prior to this there was a ferry although occasionally people would ride across, even driving in a one-horse chaise. In 1674 the ferry turned over in the weir pool with the loss of sixty lives. In the 1970s a Citroën Dyane crashed through the railings at the Streatley end of the bridge landing on a concrete weir 16 feet below. The local Citroën dealer used the photo to illustrate the inherent strength of their upmarket 2CV

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Goring and Streatley Bridge Wikipedia


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