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Maidenhead Bridge
 
 
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Maidenhead Bridge
Designed by Robert Taylor and constructed in 1777 at a cost of �19000.
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Maidenhead Bridge
This is the road bridge, carrying the A4 Bath Road, across the Thames from Maidenhead (left) to Taplow (right). It was built in 1772 and was a toll bridge until 1903. Wikipedia has more information here <a title='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Bridge' rel='nofollow' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Bridge'>Link</a><img style='padding-left:2px;' alt='External link' title='External link - shift click to open in new window' src='http://s0.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png' width='10' height='10'/>
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Maidenhead Bridge
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Maidenhead Bridge & River Thames
Viewed looking upstream, see <a href='http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/205279'>SU9081 : Maidenhead Bridge</a> for details of the bridge.
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Maidenhead Bridge
The bridge carries the A4 Bath Road over the River Thames. It was designed by the architect Robert Taylor and built at a cost of �19,000 in 1777. It was a toll bridge until 1903, when motorists decided they were no longer prepared to pay and threw the gates into the river. The bridge has 12 arches of which the middle 6 are over the water, with the middle two navigable. The first bridge over the river here was built out of wood in 1280. The centre of the small metal plaque on the near abutment records the maximum water level reached during the November 1894 flood event.
 

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