Wallingford By-pass Bridge

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Wallingford By-pass Bridge was built in 1993 as part of a by-pass round Wallingford, Oxfordshire, relieving the single-track Wallingford Bridge, and is believed to be the newest bridge on the non-tidal Thames. It forms part of the A4130. During the construction, the remains of a late Bronze Age settlement on a former eyot were found on the west bank of the Thames. Close to the east bank, the construction work allowed examination of Grim's Ditch, the long earthwork followed by the Ridgeway Path, and showed it to be late Iron Age/early Roman.

[edit] See also

• Crossings of the River Thames

Next crossing upstream	River Thames	Next crossing downstream
Wallingford Bridge (road) Appleford Railway Bridge (railway)	Wallingford By-pass Bridge Grid reference: SU608880	Moulsford Railway Bridge (railway) Goring and Streatley Bridge (road)

[edit] External links

• Wallingford History Gateway
• Cromarty, A.M.; Barclay, A.; Lambrick, G. (2005) Late Bronze Age Ritual and Habitation on a Thames Eyot at Whitecross Farm, Wallingford: The Archaeology of the Wallingford Bypass, 1986–92