Marlow Bridge
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| Marlow Bridge | |
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 Marlow Bridge, from All Saints church |
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| Crosses | River Thames |
| Locale | Marlow |
| Designer | William Tierney Clark |
| Design | Suspension |
| Opening date | 1832 |
Marlow Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames between the town of Marlow in the English county of Buckinghamshire and the village of Bisham in the county of Berkshire. It crosses the Thames just upstream of Marlow Lock, on the reach to Temple Lock.
There has been a bridge on the site since the reign of King Edward III. The current bridge is a suspension bridge, designed by William Tierney Clark and built from 1829 to 1832, and was a prototype for the nearly identical but larger Széchenyi Chain Bridge across the River Danube in Budapest. It is the only suspension bridge across the non-tidal Thames.[1]
The bridge now has a weight restriction on it, and is used only by foot and local road traffic. Its place in the national road network has been taken by the busy modern Marlow By-pass Bridge.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Cove-Smith, Chris (2006). The River Thames Book. Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson. ISBN 0852888929.
[edit] External links
- Marlow Suspension Bridge in the Structurae database
| Next crossing upstream | River Thames | Next crossing downstream |
| Temple Footbridge (pedestrian) | Marlow Bridge Grid reference: SU851860 |
Marlow By-pass Bridge (road) |
