Accommodation bridge at Bucklandwharf
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Accommodation bridge at Bucklandwharf
Image: © Rob Farrow Taken: 22 Mar 2015
This little bridge allows access from Buckland Road to a small row of houses on the eastern side of the canal at Bucklandwharf. The canal is the Wendover arm of the Grand Union Canal and has been closed to canal traffic since 1897, though there are plans to re-open it. If they do, this bridge (which post-dates the closure) will have either to be raised, or else replaced by a swing- or lift-bridge. This bridge is numbered 5B as it is the second of two bridges which have been inserted between Bridge 5 Image] and Bridge 6 just beyond this bridge at Bucklandwharf which carries the Roman Akeman Street - the former A41, now declassified - over the canal. The other bridge to have been inserted is the more recent Image] which is Bridge 5A, an appellation which would formerly have been given to this accommodation bridge.
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Image Location
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