Maps
This section in The Stripling Thames by Fred Thacker
1645: The previous Godstow bridge
was held by the Royalists against the Roundheads.
1692: Baskervile –
Between Witam & Woolvercot is a stone bridge. yt has two Arches through which laden boats do pass, & here by ye help of foards & other bridges both horse and foot do pass into each County viz. Barks & Oxfordshire.
1780: Dredge says - “the bridge over the lock cut was built”?
1790: Sketch by Ireland showing one blocked arch and one open for navigation.
1792: The current
bridge was built when the river was
being prepared for the canal traffic.
It is everything a Thames Bridge should be -
old, narrow, even perverse, and utterly delightful.
1859: Mr & Mrs Hall –
Godstow Bridge in 1859.
1885: Godstow Bridge North Arch, Henry Taunt -
Godstow Old Bridge, Henry Taunt, 1885
© Oxfordshire County Council Photographic Archive; HT4596
1892: Bridge rebuilt (or at least the south arch)
1892: Godstow Bridge, South Arch, Henry Taunt -
Godstow New Bridge, Henry Taunt, 1892
© Oxfordshire County Council Photographic Archive; HT4595
1909: The Stripling Thames, Fred Thacker -
Godstow Bridge lies just above the ruins of the nunnery, spanning the navigation with two new brick arches, and the Trout backwater with two smaller arches of stone, the further of which is pointed and looks most ancient of all. Backwards through the bridge you get as in a frame a miniature of Christchurch spire.
1929: A Thames Survey -
Godstow Bridge carries local traffic between Wytham and Wolvercot,
but under the Oxford Town Planning Scheme it will have the important function of being a link
in the circumferential road by-passing Oxford on the west side of the city.
Godstow Bridge is described in the Baskervile MS. of 1692, but it had probably been in existence
some time previous. It consists of two stone arches (the eastern one pointed and possibly of earlier date).
The weir is under the bridge. The stone bridge over the lock cut, originally built in 1792,
was rebuilt quite recently by the Thames Conservancy with two elliptical arches.
It is to be hoped that the new bridge, should one be constructed,
capable of carrying an increased traffic load, will be congruous as to scale and material with the charming
old seventeenth-century inn by the weir.
[ The above is what is known as a pious hope! See Thames Bridge to judge how far it was realised! ]
Godstow Bridge, in 2004.
Godstow Bridge, Doug Myers © 2005
Trout Inn and Bridge - Godstow, Ashley Bryant
(Upstream to Thames Bridge)
Introduction
Estuary
PLA
QEII Br
Barrier
Tower Br
Custom Ho
London Br
; Frost Fairs
Cannon St Rb
The Great Stink
Southwark Br
Millenium Br
Blackfriars Rb
Blackfriars Br
Waterloo Br
Charing Cross Rb
Westminster Br
Lambeth Br
Vauxhall Br
Victoria Rb
Chelsea Br
Albert Br
Battersea Br
Battersea Rb
Wandsworth Br
Fulham Rb
Putney Br
Hammersmith Br
Barnes Rb
Chiswick Br
Kew Rb
Kew Br
RICHMOND
Twickenham Br
Richmond Rb
Richmond Br
TEDDINGTON
Kingston Rb
Kingston Br
Ditton Slip
Hampton Br
MOLESEY
SUNBURY
Walton Br
Desborough Cut
SHEPPERTON
Chertsey Br
CHERTSEY
M3 Br
Laleham Slip
PENTON HOOK
Staines Rb
Staines Br
Runnymede Br
BELL WEIR
Magna Carta Is
OLD WINDSOR
Albert Br
Datchet
Victoria Br
Black Potts Rb
ROMNEY
Eton
Windsor Br
Windsor Rb
Windsor Slip
Elizabeth Br
BOVENEY
Dorney Lake
York Cut
Summerleaze Fb
MonkeyIsland
New Thames Br
BRAY
Bray Slip
Maidenhead Rb
Maidenhead Br
Below Boulters
BOULTERS
Cliveden
Hedsor
COOKHAM
Cookham Slip
Cookham Br
BourneEnd RFb
Quarry Woods
A404 Br
MARLOW
Marlow Br
Bisham
TEMPLE
HURLEY
Medmenham
Culham Ct
Aston Slip
HAMBLEDEN
Temple Is
Fawley Ct
Remenham
Regatta
Phyllis Ct
Henley Slip
Leander
Red Lion
Henley Br
Angel on Br
Landing
Hobbs Boatyard
Hobbs Slipway
MARSH
Hennerton
Bolney
Wargrave
Shiplake Rb
R.Loddon
SHIPLAKE
Sonning Br
SONNING
Dreadnought
K&A Canal
CAVERSHAM
Reading Br
Caversham Br
Reading Slip
Purley
MAPLEDURHAM
Hardwick Ho
Whitchurch Br
WHITCHURCH
Hartswood Reach
Gatehampton Rb
Goring Gap
Goring Br
GORING
Swan
CLEEVE
Moulsford
Moulsford Rb
Papist Way Slip
Winterbrook Br
Wallingford Br
BENSON
Shillingford Br
R.Thame
DAYS
Burcot
Clifton Hampden
Clifton Church
Clifton H Br
Barley Mow
Long Wittenham
CLIFTON
Appleford Rb
Sutton Courtenay
Sutton Br
CULHAM
Culham Cut Fb
Abingdon Slip
Abingdon
Abingdon Br
ABINGDON
Nuneham Rb
Nuneham
Nuneham Park
Radley Boats
SANDFORD
Rose Island
Kennington Rb
Isis Br
Iffley Mill
IFFLEY
Oxford Rowing
Isis
Donnington Br
Riverside Slip
Boathouses
Punting
Lower Cherwell
Upper Cherwell
Islip
Head of River
Salters Steamers
Folly Br
Bacons Folly
Oxford Fb
Osney Fb
Weir stream
Osney Rb
Bullstake Stream
Osney Marina
OSNEY
Osney Br
Four Rivers
OLD RIVER
CANAL
Medley Weir Site
Medley Fb
Bossoms
Perch
Trout
GODSTOW
Godstow Nunnery
Godstow Br
Thames Br
KINGS
River Evenlode
EYNSHAM
Swinford Br
Oxford Cruisers
PINKHILL
Farmoor
Stanton Harcourt
Bablock Slip
Arks Weir Site
NORTHMOOR
Harts Fb
Rose Revived
Newbridge
Maybush
River Windrush
below Shifford
SHIFFORD
Shifford Fb
Tenfoot Fb
Trout Inn
Tadpole Br
RUSHEY
Old Mans Fb
RADCOT
Radcot Cradle Fb
Swan Inn
Radcot New Br
Radcot Old Br
GRAFTON
Eaton Hastings
Kelmscott
Eaton Fb
BUSCOT
Bloomers Hole Fb
Trout Inn
St Johns Br
ST JOHNS
Halfpenny Br
Marina Slip
LIMIT
Inglesham
Hannington Br
Kempsford
Castle Eaton Br
Marston Meysey
A419 Br
Cricklade
SOURCE?
THAMES HEAD
SEVEN SPRINGS