Folly Bridge (1)
Location 5
Although the present Folly Bridge was built between 1825 and 1827, there has probably been a bridge across the Thames here since the 11th-century .The bridge takes its name from a building, used by Friar Bacon (1220-1292) as a study, which once stood on an earlier bridge. The name does not refer to the Victorian brick building with its statues and battlements that stands on the western side of the bridge. It was built in 1849 and is called Caudwell's Castle. A causeway (now the Abingdon Road) provided access to the bridge over the low-lying land on the river floodplain to the south. Folly Bridge provided Oxford with its link to the important centres of Winchester and Southampton.
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| Folly Bridge |
| Caudwell's Castle |
