Geograph - photograph every grid square

SP9352 : The A428 Road Bridge at Turvey SP9352 : Turvey Bridge SP9352 : Turvey Bridge

"The road from Olney to Bedford crosses the Ouse between Cold Brayfield and Turvey by a long causeway called Turvey Bridge, evidently of great age. Mention was made in the Drayton Charters (1138-1147) of 'a meadow next to Turvey Bridge', and in 1825 costs in connection with repairs to the bridge amounted to £120.8s.1d [about £120.40]. This included the cost of searching the records to find who had done repairs in the past, so evidently even at that date the county did not consider itself responsible for the maintenance of the brigde. Two arches on the Buckingham[shire] side were damaged by flood in 1872, and a few years ago [i.e. shortly before 1932] the downstream side was widened."

E. Jervoise, The ancient bridges of mid and eastern England (Architectural Press, 1932), pp. 86-7.

Pevsner in 1968 counted "16 arches in all, half of them pointed, the others round. Cutwaters only upstream."