3-011-376 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Hampton Court Old Bridge, 1864. Engraving of '...the old wooden toll-bridge at Hampton Court, which is now about to be removed by order of its proprietor, Mr. T. W. Allen, of Newlands Park, Buckinghamshire, who has resolved to build a new one of iron. The Act of Parliament for the construction of the first Hampton Court Bridge was obtained in the reign of George II., and that bridge was opened in December, 1753. It was replaced by the present bridge about thirty or forty years ago. This structure, entirely of timber, has eleven openings, varying from 25 ft. to 29 ft. span at water-line. Its width between parapets is 17 ft.; the height in the centre is considerable; and the gradients are steep. The total length of the bridge is 375 ft.; but the piers are so wide that they occupy 90 ft. solid of the available space'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.