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A stone bridge with three arched openings spans a waterway beside a dirt road and a leafless tree, with a house in the back.

Stretham Ferry Bridge, c.1922 (Cambridgeshire Collection)

Stretham Ferry Bridge

History of the Stretham Ferry Bridge

In Vanishing Cambridge, p.166, it notes that the road from Ely to Cambridge was finished in 1784. A bridge replaced the former ferry but it was single width and steep. A new bridge was built in 1925 which was replaced again in 1976.

An 1887 Ordnance Survey map detail showing Stretham Ferry Bridge, nearby buildings including the Royal Oak, and a river.

Stretham Ferry bridge, OS 1887

Line drawing of an arched stone bridge over a river, with a person riding a horse across the top and houses in the distance.

Stretham Bridge (MoC371/74)

Large group of men in flat caps and suits standing around two steam rollers and a vintage car on a gravel bridge surface.

Stretham ferry bridge 1928 being tested with heaviest vehicles available (Cambs Coll)

Three children stand on a small ferry crossing a narrow river, with two more children standing on the grassy near bank.

Chain ferry, Stretham

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