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	Faringdon History
		Named for the nearby hamlet Radcot (the cottage by the road), it was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Survey as owned by the king and farmed by Alsi of Faringdon as a two family unit of 24 acres.
		The nearest wharf was at Radcot bridge, where wooden wharves made loading to small lighters easy for the unimpeded passage down to Oxford and on to London.
		In April 1646 Radcot House was invested in preparation for a vigorous assault on 10th May by Parliamentarians, detached from the siege of Oxford.
	www.faringdon.org /hyradcot.htm (601 words)

	Robert de Vere, 1st Duke of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert de Vere fleeing Radcot Bridge, 1387: taken from the Gruthuse manuscript of Froissart's Chroniques (circa 1475).
		De Vere was hugely unpopular with the nobles and magnates and Richard’s close relationship with him was one of the catalysts for the emergence of an organised opposition to his rule in the form of the Lords Appellant.
		In 1387, de Vere led Richard’s forces to defeat at Radcot Bridge outside Oxford, against the forces of the Lords Appellant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_de_Vere,_1st_Duke_of_Ireland (307 words)

	Visit Thames - fascinating Facts
		Radcot Bridge, north of Faringdon, is a triple arched 12th century bridge, which has foundations that may date back to Saxon times.
		It is the oldest surviving bridge across the Thames.
		Maidenhead, originally Maidenhythe, is famous for its two bridges, the road bridge built of Portland stone and Brunel's brick railway bridge, also known as the "Sounding Arch" for its amazing echo.
	www.visitthames.co.uk /ffacts.html (454 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This bridge has a headroom of 12’10” and carries a footpath across from the colleges to the popular area of Grandpoint where many students have their lodgings.
		This brick bridge (14’10”) was built in 1802 as a replacement for the ‘new’ bridge which dated from 1796.
		This bridge was built in 1787 to cross an artificial cut which was dug to ease navigation when the original bridge (still standing) became too difficult to negotiate.
	www.zyworld.com /dougmyers/home5.htm (1576 words)

	About Radcot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Radcot is a hamlet on the North bank of the River Thames or Isis, situated where the ancient route from Burford and the Cotswold’s, crosses the river to Faringdon and the Downs beyond.
		It is the proud possessor of the oldest bridge on the River Thames and it was the site used by Christopher Kempster of Burford and others to load their stone on to barges to he carried down for the building of the new St. Paul’s.
		The damaged bridge does not appear to have been repaired properly for seven years, for as we have seen, it was not until 1393 that permission to charge Pontage was given.
	www.ox18.net /clanfieldradcot.htm (4424 words)

	CAMrPA - forthcoming events
		Radcot Bridge is a fine, thirteenth century, three-arched bridge, the eldest over the Thames.
		There used to be a sign affixed to a house in Church Street, Faringdon, stating that Radcot Bridge was "impassable to vehicles of the Queen Mary type", a Queen Mary being a kind of articulated lorry formerly used by the Air Force and the Navy.
		Tadpole Bridge was constructed over the Thames in 1802 to carry the turnpike from Buckland to Bampton, taking its name from a nearby weir.
	www.camrpa.co.uk /events.htm (345 words)

	Rivers
		The first Tay Bridge, opened in 1878, on the then longest span over water in the world, was blown into the river in 1879, along with a train which was passing over it.
		Until Tower Bridge was built, London Bridge was the lowest in the course; the reach between these two bridges is known as the `Pool of London´.
		The river is spanned by 20 road and nine rail bridges between Hampton Court and the Tower of London.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/rivers.htm (3832 words)

	THE THAMES PATH
		On reaching the road it is right over the smaller of three Radcot bridges where it is hoped to stop at the Swan House Hotel for lunchtime food and refreshment.
		Radcot Bridge was where 5000 supporters of Richard II found their way cut off by the future Henry IV who was in arms against the king and his evil counsellor.
		Henry had anticipated his arrival by shattering one arch of one of the bridges and the Earl of Oxford's men, taken by surprise, were captured or drowned.
	www.walktheworld.freeserve.co.uk /TP2003.htm (2292 words)

	River Thames and boaty things
		By mid 1800 this bridge, which by then was partly made of brick, had fallen into disrepair and in 1869 a new latticed iron bridge was built which stood until 1924 when they commenced the building of the current bridge.
		This bridge, also known as the Queen Elizabeth Bridge, was designed by the engineers of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire County Councils in association with the architect Courtney Theobald and is of similar construction to the Marlow By-pass Bridge described earlier.
		In about 1795 the bridge became unsafe and the ferry was introduced again by George III until 1811 when the Crown used its influence to insist that a new bridge be built by the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
	www.the-river-thames.co.uk /bridges.htm (5916 words)

	Best Western Sudbury House Hotel
		It is the oldest bridge over the river and is said to have been built as early as 958.
		The bridge became a focal point for the transportation of stone to Oxford and London - in fact Radcot was the wharf from which stone was sent by barge to build St. Paul's Cathedral.
		The bridge has been at the centre of several wars, in particular during the Civil War around 1645 when Parliamentary forces secured the bridges during their siege of the Royalist garrison in Faringdon House.
	www.bw-sudburyhouse.co.uk /RadcotBridge.asp (166 words)

	Bridge Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The lowest bridge on the river is highlighted in yellow, and bridges of 4 metres of less (or just over if in a run of higher bridges) are marked in light blue.
		Boats that can clear Folly bridge don't have a problem until Osney Bridge which at only 7' 6" or 2m 28cm is the lowest bridge on the river and a block to traffic in both directions.
		There are, however, certain hire boats, narrow boats and public boats that can pass under this bridge, and if you wish to see the top of the river they are often a better idea than taking your own vessel all the way up.
	upriver.users.btopenworld.com /resources/bridgehe.htm (209 words)

	Radcot Lock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The sides of the bridge show evidence of having been comprehensively crunched by the hapless boats of careless mariners. It is a local pastime to sit in the pub garden, sipping ones ale and waiting for the next crunch - it’s a bit like watching Casualty.
		It is said that the central arch of the bridge was demolished as a trap in the course of this battle, and later rebuilt
		Radcot Bridge the maine Stream where boats pass through is about 22 yards over and has three great Arches; the second stream has a bridge with Two Arches wch leads to Wyer, The 3
	www.thames.me.uk /r41.htm (1040 words)

	Rates
		The original bridge at Radcot is the oldest bridge over the Thames.
		Radcot was the wharf from which stone was sent by barge to build St Paul’s Cathedral and the bridge was the focal point for the transportation of stone to Oxford and London.
		Passing tourists are attracted by the beautiful setting of the twin bridges, and there is plenty of space for camping on the island.
	www.swanhotelradcot.co.uk /events.html (181 words)

	Thames Valley Guide - Historical Facts
		Radcot Bridge, north of Faringdon, is a triple arched 12th century bridge which has foundations that may date back to Saxon times and is the oldest surviving bridge on the Thames.
		Swinford Toll Bridge was built in 1777 for the fourth Earl of Abingdon whose descendants continue to receive the tolls from cars crossing over the bridge.
		Whitchurch Bridge near Pangbourne is the second remaining toll bridge and the last on the river.
	www.thamesvalleyguide.co.uk /thames_valley/history.htm (1150 words)

	1995 Bath to York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moored between bridge 122 and the lock, and were passed by "Kate Elizabeth", they passed us at lunch time and we passed them just after.
		We moved on to between bridges 55 and 56 to moor.
		No moorings in the dock so went through the lift bridge on to the pontoon moorings but had to wait 10 minutes as the bbridge keeper was at lunch until 11.30.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Cruise1995junL.htm (4481 words)

	The Thames Path - Tadpole Bridge to Lechlade
		Starting from the rural Tadpole Bridge the Thames is now narrowing as it twists its way through the open countryside of Oxfordshire, passing the villages of Kelmscot and Radcot on the way to the market town of Lechlade-on-Thames.
		At Radcot the path crosses the bridge to continue on the North bank of the river.
		The Thames is a little straighter after Radcot but soon turns to the right then as it turns round to the left you come to the next lock, Grafton Lock, a quite remote lock, again with a weir.
	www.thames-path.org.uk /thames_tadpole_lechlade.html (1273 words)

	River Thames and boaty things
		(1)The heights of bridges on the non-tidal River are measured above the standard head water level of the lock below the bridge and NO allowance has been made for the gradient of the River.
		This is in contrast to bridges on the tidal Thames where heights are measured above Mean High Water Springs (MHWS).
		This is in contrast to bridges on the non-tidal Thames where heights are measured above the standard head water level of the lock below the bridge.
	www.the-river-thames.co.uk /bridgeheights.htm (207 words)

	Berkshire History: The Battle of Radcot Bridge (1387)
		With their victory at Radcot Bridge, the 'Lords Appellant' were able to gain a short-lived control over the country.
		It is strange that Pidnell is the more northerly of the two bridges and Radcot the southerly, while the villages are the other way round.
		The present Radcot Bridge, spanning the southern branch of the River Thames and the Berkshire-Oxfordshire Boundary, is of 14th century date and is therefore the one that stood during the battle.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /articles/radcot_bridge_bat.html (538 words)

	Institution of Civil Engineers :: News & Events :: ICE News
		The winners of the 1999 Historic Bridge Awards have been announced at a special ceremony held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
		The largest project to gain an award was the refurbishment of Northwich’s Town Bridge in Cheshire, which was built in 1899 as Britain’s first electrically driven swing bridge.
		This neo-classical cast iron bridge over the River Loddon was designed by Thomas Wilson for Lord Rivers and completed in 1802.
	www.ice.org.uk /news_events/newsdetail_ice.asp?PressID=79&NewsType=Press (404 words)

	The Canoe-Camper Issue 249 - April 2002 - The Lechlade Family Holiday
		At Radcot a friend of the organiser’s has a farm with a long river frontage, and we are able to pull up our boats on his land.
		There is a pub, the Swan, just the other side of Radcot Bridge, which does excellent meals.
		We call this the beginners’ day, because there are some extensive backwaters at Radcot, so little flotillas of beginners can go very slowly round this rather exciting little sheltered circuit, which begins and ends right by our picnic place.
	www.canoecampingclub.co.uk /issue249/lechl249.htm (828 words)

	The 1999 Tour Page 11
		There were some new visitor moorings by Bridge 5, there was no one there and we can not imagine them ever being used much.
		We got stoned by some kids going through grotty Kidlington, between Bridges 227 and 228, in fact a direct hit on the parrot cage, that was rather stupidly out on the front cockpit table.
		The bridge spanning the non navigation channel is the oldest surviving on the River Thames.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /Tour_99/Tour11.html (3870 words)

	River Thames Image Library: Radcot Godstow Photographs - Buy Editorial Travel Pictures
		They show aspects of the Thames footpath - including picturesque Old Man's Bridge - a number of the river's locks, views of pretty villages nearby the Thames, including Bampton and Stanton Harcourt, and narrowboats on the river.
		The bridge gets its name from this shallow section of the Thames which historically served as a 'swine ford', or pig crossing, and was once the main vehicle route to Wales.
		Images here include the bridge with children on top (playing Pooh Sticks), a rambler crossing it, a Thames Footpath sign beside it and a cycle-tourer's bicycle (i.e.
	www.jimbatty.com /thames/radcot_4.html (480 words)

	Berkshire History: Faringdon
		The Battle of Radcot Bridge is an oft forgotten struggle that took place during the turbulant years of King Richard II’s reign, when his uncles were busy trying to impose their will on the immovable King.
		The rebel Earl of Derby (later King Henry IV) met with De Vere’s men at Radcot Bridge, but the latter's troops deserted and he was forced to swim the river and flee to France.
		The present bridge is 14th century, and is therefore the one that stood during the battle.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /villages/faringdon.html (1038 words)

	On Board Narrowboat Frilford
		I slipped quietly under Osney Bridge (a notorious low bridge at Osney in Oxford which is a defining mark on the River Thames.
		The lock-keeper at Rushey telephoned ahead to Radcot Lock to discover that the Radcot lock-keeper would be off duty by the time I got there, but that, since he now knew I was coming, he’d leave the bottom gates open for me.
		I looked around me. My mooring place was about 40 yards from the bridge and the ‘wicket gate’ through which dog owners come to walk their charges in the vast meadow which is the side of the river at this point.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~rayson/frilford3.html (4678 words)

	Canoeing the Non-tidal Thames
		The newer bridge over the main river, was built in 1787.
		It is a fairly easy paddle 1/2 mile upstream to Dorchester bridge and the Roman town of Dorchester and its ruined 7th century Abbey.
		The "temporary" is one of the ugliest bridges on the Thames.
	www.igreens.org.uk /canoeing_the_nontidal_thames.htm (3583 words)

	Crossings of the River Thames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dartford Cable Tunnel, a new circa 3 metre diameter tunnel built upstream of the Dartford Tunnels in 2003-4and designed to carry and allow for maintenance of 400kV national electrical grid cable beneath the Thames; it is accessible byfoot as a crossing of the Thames, but by authorised personnel only.
		Thames Gateway Bridge, expected to be built between2009 and 2013 to connect Beckton in the borough of Newham with Thamesmead in the boroughof Greenwich.
		There are also many tunnels used by Tube trains as part of the London Underground network or (at Greenwich), the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), and a free ferry forvehicles, cycles and people on foot during daylight hours at Woolwich.
	www.therfcc.org /crossings-of-the-river-thames-106649.html (381 words)

	Radcot Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Evidently this bridge was built in 1787 now called Radcot Bridge but was for Navigation and was the Canal Bridge.
		The original Radcot Bridge, with 3 arches is slightly to the south of it, (just to the left of the view of the sheep dip in another photo on this page) over the old course of the Thames.
		It is the oldest bridge on the Thames.
	ox18.net /clanfieldphotoradcot.htm (255 words)

	Faringdon Virtual Tour - The Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Next year the reorganised Parliamentarians, victorious at Islip in April, moved SW over Radcot Bridge, and 'quartered up to Faringdon', overlooking it from high ground round Folly Hill.
		All the while skirmishes, evidenced by scattered finds of musket balls, continued at or near the neighbouring crossings, Lechlade, Highworth and Newbridge, while Faringdon was soon strongly reinforced, and remained a vital Royalist garrison.
		Parliamentarians [under Col. Sir Robert Pye, son of the owner of Faringdon House!] captured Radcot House over the river and then infiltrated Faringdon itself; but they were quickly repulsed piecemeal from various occupied houses.
	www.faringdon.org /thevirtualtour/gcwar.htm (344 words)

	Fenland Tour 2001 Page 36
		The Radcot Locky was alright about leaving engine on as generator running......Rushey Locky was not......said it depended what the nice wooden cruiser, that was sharing with us.
		Arrived at The Thame at 12.05 and had a jolly time lining up for the entrance under the roving towpath bridge (plenty of NB navigable height) - this was due to a badly moored up Darlek.
		Next came the angled Dorchester Bridge that we got under fairly easily (only a few cases of gravel rattling) Beyond here the river spits in two, we took the larger clearer, left hand channel, but ground to a halt soon after.
	www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk /Tour_01/fen36.html (1495 words)

	Crossings of the River Thames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dartford Cable Tunnel, a new circa 3 metre diameter tunnel built upstream of the Dartford Tunnels in 2003-4 and designed to carry and allow for maintenance of 400kV national electrical grid cable beneath the Thames; it is accessible by foot as a crossing of the Thames, but by authorised personnel only.
		Thames Gateway Bridge, expected to be built between 2009 and 2013 to connect Beckton in the borough of Newham with Thamesmead in the borough of Greenwich.
		There are also many tunnels used by Tube trains as part of the London Underground network or (at Greenwich), the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), and a free ferry for vehicles, cycles and people on foot during daylight hours at Woolwich.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Crossings-of-the-River-Thames.htm (499 words)

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