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Maidenhead Bridge

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Maidenhead Bridge
Location Map ( geo)
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From:  London
To:  Maidenhead
Location
Near Taplow
County
Buckinghamshire • Berkshire
Highway Authority
Buckinghamshire • Windsor and Maidenhead
Opening Date
1777
Additional Information
List No:  1117619  (Grade I)
Bridge Type:  Arch Bridge
Engineer:  Robert Taylor
On road(s)
A4
Crossings related to the A4

The Maidenhead Bridge crosses the River Thames on the A4 west of Windsor. There has been a bridge here since at least the 13th century.

The current bridge was designed by Robert Taylor and opened in 1777. It was initially a toll bridge, until a controversial incident in 1903 when a group of frustrated motorists, fed up with charges, vandalised the toll gates and threw them into the river.

There is a plaque in the middle of the bridge that documents the high water level achieved during a flood in 1894.




Maidenhead Bridge
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Crossings of the River Thames
Thames Head Bridge • A429 Road Bridge • Three Bridges • Town Bridge • A419 Road Bridge • Castle Eaton Bridge • Hannington Bridge • Halfpenny Bridge • St Johns Bridge • Radcot Bridge • Tadpole Bridge • Newbridge • Swinford Bridge • Thames Bridge (A34) • Godstow & Little Godstow Bridges • Osney Bridge • Folly Bridge • Donnington Bridge • Isis Bridge • Abingdon Bridge • Sutton Bridge • Clifton Hampden Bridge • Little Wittenham Bridge • Shillingford Bridge • Wallingford Bridge • Winterbrook Bridge • Streatley & Goring Bridge • Whitchurch Bridge • Caversham Bridge • Reading Bridge • Sonning Bridge • Henley Bridge • Marlow Bridge • Longridge Bridge • Cookham Bridge • Maidenhead Bridge • New Thames Bridge • Queen Elizabeth Bridge • Windsor Bridge • Victoria Bridge • Albert Bridge • Runnymede • Staines Bridge • M3 Thames Bridge • Chertsey Bridge • Walton Bridge • Hampton Court Bridge • Kingston Bridge • Richmond Bridge • Twickenham Bridge • Kew Bridge • Chiswick Bridge • Hammersmith Bridge • Putney Bridge • Wandsworth Bridge • Battersea Bridge • Albert Bridge • Chelsea Bridge • Vauxhall Bridge • Lambeth Bridge • Westminster Bridge • Waterloo Bridge • Blackfriars Bridge • Southwark Bridge • London Bridge • Tower Bridge • Rotherhithe Tunnel • Blackwall Tunnels • Silvertown Tunnel • Woolwich Ferry • Thames Gateway Crossing • Belvedere Bridge • Dartford Crossing (Dartford Tunnel, QEII Bridge, New Dartford Bridge) • Gravesend - Tilbury Ferry • Lower Thames Crossing



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