Tewkesbury, King John's Bridge c.1960
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T26090
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King John's bridge has straddled the Avon at Tewkesbury for some 800 years. The original early 13th-century bridge built on the orders of the monarch was of stone with a half-mile-long wooden causeway across the Ham. To ensure that the bridge was well maintained, King John declared that tolls from Tewkesbury markets on Wednesdays and Saturdays should be earmarked for its upkeep. This did not happen, however, and at the County Assizes in 1638 Tewkesbury was instructed to repair the bridge because 'diverse of his majesty's subjects travelling that way have been unfortunately drowned.' In 1824 the bridge was widened, and the structure we see today is the result of a complete rebuild in 1962.
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