A high-arched wooden footbridge with simple railings crosses a narrow, calm waterway surrounded by low, grassy banks.

The Cock-Up Bridge, Burwell Lode, 1950 (MoC208/68)

Cock-Up Bridge, Burwell Lode

History of Burwell Lode

This map is assumed to be the bridge shown in the picture, described as The Cock-Up, Burwell Lode.

An 1885 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing a blue-shaded waterway, High Bridge, a towing path, and numbered field plots.

Burwell Lode OS 1885

A person stands on the grassy bank of a canal with a fishing rod, with a gabled house and trees visible in the background.

The Lode, Burwell (MoC)

The Cock-up bridge figures prominently in The Farm in the Fens, Alan Bloom, 1943 as the bridge lay on the southern boundary of the farm, Priory Farm.

A steep, arched wooden footbridge with horizontal railings spanning a waterway in a flat, grassy landscape.

Cock-up bridge c.1943 (from The Farm in the Fen)

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