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St Ives Bridge is a 15th-century bridge crossing the River Great Ouse in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England. It is noted for being one of only four bridges in England to incorporate a chapel (the others being at Rotherham , Wakefield , and Bradford-on-Avon ).
St Ives Bridge is most unusual in incorporating a chapel, the most striking of only four examples in England. Also unusual are its two southern arches which are a different shape from the rest of the bridge, being rounded instead of slightly gothic. After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537, the chapel was given to the prior to live in.
A map of Cambridgeshire, ... Botolph Bridge (ancient parish abolished 1702 and merged with Orton Longueville) ... • St Ives (Old Hurst • Woodhurst) • Warboys ...
There were a number of places called St Ives in England when the rhyme was first published. It is generally thought that the rhyme refers to St Ives, Cornwall, when it was a busy fishing port and had many cats to stop the rats and mice destroying the fishing gear, although some people argue it was St Ives, Cambridgeshire, as this is an ancient market town and therefore an equally plausible ...
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It runs from Penzance to Plymouth, crossing from Cornwall into Devon over the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash. It directly serves Truro, St Austell, Bodmin (by a Parkway station) and Liskeard. It forms the backbone for rail services in Cornwall and there are branches off it which serve St Ives, Falmouth, Newquay and Looe.
Cantilevered 1,104 feet over the dramatic Tarn Gorge, the Millau Viaduct is the world’s tallest bridge. Here’s how this wonder of the modern world was built. How the world’s tallest bridge ...
ruins are among England's oldest surviving bridge works St Ives Bridge: St Ives, Cambridgeshire: Great Ouse in St Ives, Cambridgeshire: 1400s One of four bridges in England having a chapel. [7] [8] Chapel space was a bawdy house in 1700s. Rotherham Bridge