Abingdon Bridge

The bridge actually consists of two crossings linked by a causeway across Nag's Head Island, with Burford Bridge spanning the main Thames channel and Maud Hales Bridge crossing the smaller back stream. It is best appreciated from the meadow on the south bank, where you can take in the curve of the river, the spire of St Helen's, and the line of pubs along the wharf.

The riverside path leads east towards Abingdon Lock — about a mile's walk along the Thames Path — and west into the meadows of the Ock Valley. In summer, swans, narrowboats, and rowers from Abingdon's two clubs make the bridge one of the most active stretches of river above Oxford.

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The original bridge of 1416 carried medieval traffic between Oxford and Southampton across the Thames for nearly 500 years. The current structure, dating mostly from a 1929 rebuilding that kept the medieval pointed arches, still uses the same alignment — and the central arch retains the worn stonework where ropes from horse-drawn barges scoured grooves over the centuries.