The Oxford Canal and it's Bridges.
Photographs of the Canal Bridges between Oxford and Banbury which cross this beautiful
English Canal
Our Oxford Canal Bridge Pictures show all the bridges which cross the Oxford Canal from the
start (end?) at
Oxford with Bridge 243 and going through Lower Heyford, Islip, Aynho
to Banbury at Bridge 164 Spiceball Bridge.
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The 77 mile long Oxford Canal wanders it's way
through the English
countryside between Oxford (The River Thames) and Hawkesbury Junction near Coventry and was
fully opened in 1790.
The Oxford canal joins up with the lovely River Cherwell which seems to wander and meander about
even more than it's watery neighbour for a short distance but they soon part company again as
in the photo on the left - however elsewhere both river and canal are often just a few yards
away from each other. In one particularly interesting spot the River Cherwell cuts across
the canal at Weir bridge and Lock.
One of the saddest things we have come across on the Oxford Canal is
the (presumably responsible) Oxfordshire County Council's poor
treatment of Nell bridge. They
have simply shoved an ugly load of concrete immediately across the top of this
once gorgeous little bridge - which incidentally is one of the oldest
on the Oxford Canal system.
In other locations where roads have to cross at existing canal
bridge sites at least some attempt has been made to keep the
original canal bridge
intact by routing their ugle concrete bridge either higher up or to the side, but
here they have simply vandalised it - shame on them.
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Originally the Oxford Canal was built and used for moving coal to the South but
these days it is the habitat of fishermen, cruise boats, cyclists, walkers,
herons, kingfishers, ducks and a large number of private canal boats. We have
often used the canal for our walking trips - it is quite ideal to create lots of
circular walks in and around the open countryside especially around the Lower
Heyford area of Oxfordshire.
One of the nicest things about the canal are the small bridges which
frequently cross over it - these are usually simply farmer's bridges used to
move stock etc. between their fields either side of the canal. This page of information is a series of
photographs of some of these bridges which we have found as we walked the
towpath over the years.
There are quite a few photos of the railway bridges and also some of the what
appears to be remains of bridges as well (of course in reality these remains are
no longer bridges since they do not cross the canal but are interesting so
included.). The original canal bridges were numbered and where some of the
numbers are now missing but bridge remains exist we have made a guess that these
were said bridges at one time.
Oxford Canal Bridges between Oxford and Banbury - Bridges 243 to 164.
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165 |

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166 |

168 |
| Spiceball Bridge |
Lift Bridge |
Banbury-Oxford Canal road bridge |
Albion Bridge |
Samuelson Bridge |

169? |
 169?
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170 |

171 |

172 |
| Demolished Bridge |
Demolished bridge |
Haynes Lift Bridge |
Foxes Lift Bridge |
Nadkey Bridge |

173 |

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174 |

174 |
 175
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| Lift Bridge |
M40 Bridge |
Grants Bridge |
Grants Bridge |
Stevens Lift Bridge |

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177 |

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179 |
| demolished bridge 176? |
Twyford Bridge |
Demolished lift bridge - possibly no178 |
or this demolished bridge may have been 178 |
Tarvers Bridge |

179 |

181 |

182 |

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| Tarvers Bridge |
Scroobys Lift Bridge |
Coles Lift Bridge |
Dismantled Railway Bridge |
M40 Road Bridge |

183 |

184 |

185 |

186 |

187 |
| Coles Lift Bridge |
Demolished Lift Bridge 184? |
Demolished Lift Bridge 185? |
Idons Lift Bridge |
Nell Bridge |

188 |
 189 |
 190 |
 191? |

192 |
| Weir Bridge |
Belchers Lift Bridge |
Aynho Bridge |
Demolished Lift Bridge - 191? |
Souldern Bridge |
 193 |
 194
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 194 |
 195 |
 196 |
| Chisnell Lift Bridge |
Somerton Deep Lock |
Somerton Deep Lock Bridge |
Meadlands Bridge |
Somerton Bridge |
 197? |
 198 |
 199 |

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 200 |
| Demolished Lift Bridge - 197? |
Deep Cutting Bridge |
Somerton Mill Bridge |
Pipe Bridge |
Heyford Common Bridge |
 201 |
 202 |
 203 |
 203 |
 204 |
| Railway Bridge near Upper Heyford |
Single Bridge |
Allens Lock Bridge |
Allens Lock Bridge |
Allens Bridge |

205 |

206 |

207 |

208 |

209 |
| Mill Lift Bridge |
Heyford Wharf Bridge |
Cleeves Bridge |
High Bush Bridge |
Dashwood Bridge |

209 |

210 |

next to 210 |

211 |

212 |
| Dashwood Bridge |
Northbrook Bridge |
Northbrook Packhorse Bridge |
New Brighton Bridge |
Old Brighton Bridge |

213 |

214 |

214 |

215 |

216 |
| Pigeons Bridge |
Pinsey Bridge |
aka Binsey Bridge sometimes |
Caravan Lift Bridge |
Bridge at Enslow |

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217 |

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220 |

220 |
| Enslow Railway Bridge |
Horse Bridge |
Bunker Hill Railway Bridge |
Shipton Lift Bridge |
Shipton Lift Bridge |

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220 |

220 |
| Shipton on Cherwell Railway Bridge |
Dismantled Railway Bridge |
Dismantled Railway Bridge |
Shipton Bridge |
Shipton Bridge |

221 |

223 |

224 |

224 |
226 |
| Aubreys Lift Bridge |
Sparrowgap Bridge |
Langford Lane Bridge |
Langford Lane Bridge |
Roundham Bridge |

226 |

227 |

227 |

228 |

228 |
| Roundham Bridge |
Bullers Bridge |
Bullers Bridge |
Yarnton Bridge |
Yarnton Bridge |

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230 |

231 |
| Pipe Bridge Kidlington |
Oxford Canal Footbridge |
Oxford Canal Footbridge |
Kings Bridge |
Drinkwaters Lift Bridge |

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232
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233 |
| Railway Bridge |
Dukes Bridge |
Oxford Canal Road Bridge |
Oxford Canal Road Bridge |
Lift Bridge |

234 |

234 |

235 |

235 |

235 |
| Perrys Lift Bridge |
Perrys Lift Bridge |
Upper Wolvercote Bridge |
Upper Wolvercote Bridge |
Upper Wolvercote Bridge |
 236 |

236 |

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| Balls Bridge |
Balls Bridge |
Upper Wolvercote Railway Bridge |
Upper Wolvercote Railway Bridge |
Demolished Lift Bridge? |

238 |

238 |

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240 |

240 |
| St Edwards Lift Bridge |
St Edwards Lift Bridge |
Oxford Canal Bridge |
Aristotle Bridge |
Aristotle Bridge |
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242 |

242 |

243 |
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Oxford Canal Bridge |
Oxford Canal Bridge |
Isis Lock Bridge |
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