Offord Bridge
Introduction
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Offord Bridge
Image: © Tiger Taken: 25 Oct 2018
Offord means "upper ford", but the fords on the road west to Buckden, used by the Danes, have long been replaced by bridges across the two natural streams of the Great Ouse and the artificial navigational channel which runs between them through Offord Lock. This is the oldest, narrowest and most westerly of the three present bridges; it has three arches of brick and may well have been rebuilt around 1880 when the adjacent flour mills were constructed, as the bricks used are similar. Edwyn Jervoise in his survey of the ancient bridges of Eastern England published in 1932 does not mention a bridge at Offord, suggesting that it was relatively recent at that time.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.28962
Longitude
-0.22137