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The Romans dumped materials to improve the ford and at one time appear to have had a bridge over the Lea. [4] Evidence has been found of a late Roman settlement at Old Ford dating from the 4th and 5th centuries. Excavations in 2002–03 discovered a substantial 'ribbon' development along the line of the road, surrounded by fields.
The Bogoda bridge is over 400 years old and made entirely from wooden planks, which are said to have come from one tree. [citation needed] It is an exclusive construction as it has an 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) tall tiled roof structure for its entire span of nearly 15 metres (49 ft) length with a 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) breadth.
(Both bridges) The new bridge: carries the B3357 road. The old bridge: carries traffic to and from the car park for the Two Bridges Hotel. Tyne Bridge: Tyne and Wear: Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead: 1928: Crosses the River Tyne: Valley Bridge: North Yorkshire: Scarborough: 1865: spans Ramsdale Victoria Avenue Bridge: Cambridgeshire ...
Until Putney Bridge opened in 1729, London Bridge was the only road crossing of the Thames downstream of Kingston upon Thames. London Bridge has been depicted in its several forms, in art, literature, and songs, including the nursery rhyme " London Bridge Is Falling Down ", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot .
Line of the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh. The Great North Road was the main highway between England and Scotland from medieval times until the 20th century. It became a coaching route used by mail coaches travelling between London, York and Edinburgh.
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A notably long road, Blackfriars Road, in Bankside, Southwark – a main approach to the road bridge – hosts near its northern extreme skyscraper One Blackfriars. For a short arc north-west of the small gyratory around the large station complex (with Bridge House, office and retail buildings) stretches back the Crowne Plaza London – The ...
Just before its western end, a T-junction with Great Dover Street, it has the north end of the modernised but medieval route of that street, Tabard Street, which is a Georgian renaming of the London conclusion of the Old Kent Road (its conclusion can otherwise be considered bustling Borough High Street/London Bridge beyond, all piling in the ...