Ilford: Former Wards Road railway bridge
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Ilford: Former Wards Road railway bridge
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 25 Apr 2011
The bridge on the summit used to carry Wards Road over the former Great Eastern Railway's Woodford and Ilford branch. However the railway has long since been demolished and only this bridge and two other similar ones in the area remain as reminders. Wards Road actually predated the railway and all the residential development being shown as Wards Lane on the Ordnance Survey map of 1864. When the railway came the road was known as Wards Road West and Wards Road East on either side of the bridge, as shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1919. This side was Wards Road East.
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51.570639
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