TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told
― Rudyard Kipling
Archive for the tag 'River Thames'
Filed under Out & About
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 1st 2026
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Windsor Revisited 2022
Windsor Revisited – Day One
Our return visit to Windsor took place a week later than we had originally planned. Our plan was to revisit Windsor Castle, in particular St George’s Hall and St George’s Chapel, which was not fully open on our previous visit. The castle had only reopened a few days before our planned visit date following the [...]
9 Comments CherryPie on Oct 16th 2022
Filed under Holidays, Oxford 2014
Folly Bridge
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle of 912 records a settlement called Oxenford at a pace where local people would drive their cattle across the river. The popular belief has always been that the city takes its name from the words “ox” and “ford” and that the crossing place was here, at was is now Folly Bridge.
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16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 24th 2015
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
Hungerford Bridge from the Eye
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 9th 2013
