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Description: | The bridge was built in 1798 by the Bursledon Bridge Company, following an Act of Parliament the previous year. It was built to improve communications east of Southampton, and was a pivot to the new turnpike roads to Northam Bridge in Southampton and to Titchfield. It avoided using the ford at Botley.
The first tolls were received on 3 July 1800, and there were few years thereafter in which the company did not pay a dividend.
In 1930, Hampshire County Council bought the bridge from the Bridge Company and freed it from tolls. The wooden bridge was replaced by the present concrete bridge between 1933 and 1935.
One consequence of building the bridge was to restrict river-borne access upstream. George Parsons, the shipbuilder, was thus forced in 1807 to vacate his Bursledon site and relocate to Warsash. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | turnpike Bursledon Bridge River Hamble bridge river toll Bursledon Bridge Company | Temporal: | start=1920-01-01; end=1933-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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