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Bridge Terrace, East Street, SUDBURY, CO10 2TT

The track under the bridge was for road access to a small chalk pit with limekilns, mapped as old in 1885. The way over the bridge is from a high level footpath parallel with the track on the left to the six houses of Bridge Terrace, also at high level on the right, out of sight. It seems likely this was the only access to the front of the houses once, but now there is road access, via this track, at low level and a foot route up to the houses. There is also access from Upper East Street to the rear. In 2014 the chalk pit site, latterly part of the garden of a house above on Queens Close, was being redeveloped for further housing. The access was intended to be through the bridge, and work was done on lowering the track under the bridge. During this the bridge and utilities were damaged, hence the patched up cracks. The planning authority pronounced there was no permission for this work, and work was stopped. The access to the development was changed to be from Queens Close, so the passage under the bridge is blocked. For some reason the footway over the bridge is also now blocked with a short length of high wooden fence set into the hedge along the footpath. The bridge is claimed to be 150 years old. It certainly appears on the 1885 map, with a benchmark on it.

The fencing on the left blocks off use of the old footbridge to Bridge Terrace - see Image for an account of the bridge.

Outside the Horse & Groom, this is a standard style used by the nationalized regional bus companies in the 1950s, at least in this part of the country. Probably Eastern Counties, although Eastern National operated in Essex, just over the Stour. The sign is now removed.

On the corner of East Street and Upper East Street.