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Thames Bridges (Paperback)
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Thames Bridges (Paperback)
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From a low road bridge crossing the Fosse Way near Trewsbury Mead
to the towering Queen Elizabeth Bridge linking Kent to Essex, the
River Thames is crossed by over 200 bridges, some simple wooden or
stonework structures, others magnificent architectural
constructions. Stretching across the southern counties of England,
starting as a trickle in a Gloucestershire meadow to the vast
expanse of tidal water leading into the North Sea, the course of
the River Thames defined local kingdoms, tribal lands and later the
counties situated to the north and south of the river. Throughout
this time, although London Bridge was the first permanent structure
to traverse the river in London, other bridges crossed the Thames
further upstream, first simple structures erected for moving
livestock and carts from one field to another, where the waterway
dividing farmland and pasture was too wide or too strong to cross
by fording, then new building techniques made it possible for
carpenters and stonemasons to construct permanent structures to
link communities, hamlets, villages and towns. Of the 200 bridges
many have fascinating stories to tell, of their construction and
historical events which surround them, from prehistory and Roman
times up to the twenty-first century. In this book author David C.
Ramzan explores the economic and social history of these Thames
bridges, some unassuming, but no less important, while others are
unique in design and construction.
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