Maidenhead Bridge

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This article is about the road bridge. For the nearby rail bridge, see Maidenhead Railway Bridge.

Maidenhead Bridge
Maidenhead Bridge today
Carries	A4 road
Crosses	River Thames
Locale	Maidenhead, Berkshire
Designer	Robert Taylor
Design	Arch
Material	Stone
Number of spans	13
Piers in water	5
Opening date	1777
Toll	Abolished 1903

Maidenhead Bridge is a bridge carrying the A4 road over the River Thames to the east of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. It crosses the Thames on the reach above Bray Lock, about half a mile below Boulter's Lock.

The first bridge was built out of wood in 1280. The current stone bridge, authorised by act of parliament in 1772, was designed by architect Robert Taylor and built at a cost of £19,000 in 1777. It was a toll bridge until 1903, when motorists decided they were no longer prepared to pay and threw the gates into the river. The current bridge has 13 arches of which the middle 6 are over the water, with the middle two navigable.

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Crossings of the River Thames

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Maidenhead Road Bridge in the Structurae database

Next crossing upstream	River Thames	Next crossing downstream
Cookham Bridge (road)	Maidenhead Bridge Grid reference: SU901810	Maidenhead Railway Bridge (rail)
Next crossing upstream	Thames Path	Next crossing downstream
southern bank Bourne End Railway Bridge	Maidenhead Bridge	northern bank Windsor Bridge