Rewley Road Swing Bridge
Rewley Road Swing Bridge is a disused railway swing bridge over Sheepwash Channel in west Oxford, England. To the north are Cripley Meadow and Fiddler's Island and to the south are Osney Island and the Botley Road.Photo: Robin Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Bridge
- Description: decommissioned bridge
- Also known as: “Swing bridge, LNWR Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Worcester College and Oxford Railway Station.
Worcester College
University
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Worcester College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was adopted by the college. Worcester College is situated 890 feet east of Rewley Road Swing Bridge.
Oxford Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oxford is a main line railway station, one of two that serve the city of Oxford, in Oxfordshire, England. It lies about 0.5 miles west of the city centre, north-west of Frideswide Square and the eastern end of Botley Road. Oxford Railway Station is situated 820 feet south of Rewley Road Swing Bridge.
Somerville College
University
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Somerville College is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Rewley Road Swing Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jericho and Oxford.
Jericho
Suburb
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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.
Oxford
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Norham Manor
Quarter
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.
Rewley Road Swing Bridge
- Categories: railway bridge, swing bridge, railway, and transportation
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75566° or 51° 45′ 20″ northLongitude
-1.27052° or 1° 16′ 14″ westOperator
Oxford Preservation TrustOpen location code
9C3WQP4H+7QOpenStreetMap ID
way 265408737OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=railwayOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeWikidata ID
Q7319096
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Highlights include Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge C and Sheepwash Channel Railway Bridge.
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