THE BOOKS OF PETER C. SMITH

Thames Bridges

The Thames is England's premier river, and its history is the very history of the land, from Cricklade to Runnymeade and beyond is indeed liquid history. From its start at Trewsbury Mead, near the village of Coates, along the143-mile length until it reaches the bridge at Walton-on-Thames inside the western boundary of Great London itself, there are some seventy fixed bridges across the Thames. Many of these are unworthy of description, especially those in the towns of Oxford and Reading, but others, some tiny, some majestic, have features which make them very special places.

Those bridges included in this volume are - from Thames Head to Cricklade, Halfpenny bridge, St. John's, Radcot, Tadpole, New, Swinford Toll, Osney, Folly, Abingdon, Clifton Hampden, Shillingford, Wallingford, Streatley & Goring, Whitchurch Toll, Reading to Caversham, Sonning, Henley, Marlow Suspension, Cookham, Maidenhead, Windsor, the Victoria & the Albert, Staines, Chertsey and Walton.