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The River Cam enters Cambridge from the south west of the city and heads north past many of the historic colleges of the University of Cambridge along the open area known as The Backs. After passing St John's College, it turns sharply and runs east, passing the weir at Jesus Green and the boathouses alongside Midsummer Common. Passing Chesterton, it turns north again and leaves the city, running a further 12 mi (19 km) before merging with the Great Ouse at Pope's Corner to the south of Ely.
List of bridges in Cambridge
The following is a list and brief history of the bridges in Cambridge, England, principally those over the River Cam.
The River Cam enters Cambridge from the south west of the city and heads north past many of the historic colleges of the University of Cambridge along the open area known as The Backs. After passing St John's College, it turns sharply and runs east, passing the weir at Jesus Green and the boathouses alongside Midsummer Common. Passing Chesterton, it turns north again and leaves the city, running a further 12 mi (19 km) before merging with the Great Ouse at Pope's Corner to the south of Ely.
Bridges over the River Cam (south to north):
Links Coe Fen behind The Leys School over a second small bridge to Lammas Land, near the area known as Hobson's Paradise. Also known as Sheep's Green bridge, it was closed in the second quarter of 2006 to replace the steps with ramps to make it easier for cyclists and prams to cross. The bridge decking was also replaced.
The first road bridge that is reached as the river enters the city. The road was formally opened on 9 December 1926.[1]map 2 The bridge is sometimes called the "Lesbian Bridge", from the nature of the graffiti sometimes written on its underside.
A footbridge linking Sheep's Green and Coe Fen, and the final bridge on the 'Upper River' before it reaches the small weir at the mill pond.
Two wooden bridges within the college grounds connecting the main site with the college's two islands.
The site of bridges back to the 14th century. This wide bridge was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1932.
This is the third version of the design, first built in 1749.
The first bridge on the site was built in the 15th century, and has been rebuilt several times before the current incarnation, designed by William Wilkins and built by Francis Braidwood.
The oldest of Cambridge's current bridges, this bridge in classical style was built in 1639–40 by Thomas Grumbold (d.1659)[2] It survives as the oldest due to all its contemporaries being destroyed by the Parliamentarian forces in the Civil War, to make the town of Cambridge more defensible. Many different stories are told to explain the missing section of the globe second from the left on the south side of the bridge. One rumour is that the builder of the bridge received (what he considered to be) insufficient payment, and in his anger, removed a segment of the globe; another is that complete bridges were subject to a tax at the time it was built, and the missing segment made the bridge incomplete and hence untaxed.
At least the eighth bridge on this site on Garret Hostel Lane between the colleges of Trinity and Trinity Hall. The current design is by T. G. Morgan.
Students of the University of Cambridge often refer to this bridge as Orgasm Bridge,[3][4] with a possible explanation for the name: its relative steepness causes cyclists much effort to reach the top but this is followed by the pleasurable descent.
Designed by James Essex, it replaced a stone bridge built in 1651.
Probably Cambridge's best-known bridge, designed by Henry Hutchinson and based on a similarly named bridge in Venice, although the only real similarity between them is that they are both covered bridges over waterways.map 12. A bridge in Oxford, also nicknamed "The Bridge of Sighs" but more reminiscent of the Rialto Bridge, links two sites of Hertford College, but it bridges New College Lane rather than a river or canal.
Magdalene Bridge viewed from the boardwalk near Quayside, with the tower of St John's College New Court in the background.
Named after Magdalene College, which stands nearby. It is very close to the location of the Roman ford (around 40 AD), and the location of the first bridge in Cambridge (probably built by Offa in the 8th century).
The latest bridge was designed by Arthur Browne in Gothic revival style and was rebuilt in the same style in 1982.
A pedestrian and cycle bridge that links Cutter Ferry Lane with Midsummer Common. The original footbridge was closed in 2003 after over 75 years of service, and removed during December 2004. The replacement, over which cyclists may now legally cycle, was opened on 20 May 2005.
Also known by Cambridge residents as Pye's Bridge because of the one-time nearby Pye electronics factory, and by student rowers as Emma Bridge because of its proximity to Emmanuel College Boathouse.
Construction work began on a new foot and cycle bridge between Chesterton and Riverside in April 2007. It opened to the public on 5 June 2008.
Known to locals as the "Green Dragon Bridge" after the pub opposite its northern end. Also known to student rowers as 'Chesterton Footbridge' as it crosses over what they know as 'Chesterton Corner'.map 19
Crosses the river through east Chesterton, south of the A14 bridge. It is the third railway bridge to be built on this site, replacing a plain plate girder bridge which stood on the site between 1870 and 1930, which itself replaced a wooden bridge built in 1846.map 20
Known (incorrectly) to rowers and others as the "Motorway Bridge". Crosses the river just south of Baits Bite Lock. This bridge is also sometimes referred to as 'Bovis Bridge'.
An elevated footbridge
crosses Baits Bite Lock in Milton to a narrow islet. A concrete-arch
footbridge then crosses the weir to the east bank near Horningsea.