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Bridge 4
Our final bridge is found by the side of the B3190, just before you get to Morebath from Bampton.I have driven along this road many times and often wondered why there is a bridge just lying there.It looks so out of place,like someone just picked it up and dumped it there.Investigate a bit further and you find that this is the last rail bridge before Morebath Junction Halt and although it looks out of place now,the road once used to go over it.
- view looking straight where the track used to be
- the old road going over the bridge looking south
- the old road surface on top of the bridge
- view showing how the new road was built over the old line
- the view up to the bridge looking east
- the bridge from the road
- Christine peering down to make sure I'm okay
- the eastern arch of the bridge
- weird looking mud stuff under the bridge
- looking west exactly where the track to Morebath Junction went
You can see all the bridges mentioned in this map from 1950.If you zoom into bridge 4(green marker) on the Google map, you can compare it with this map to see how the road used to go over the bridge.
Google Map of Where we Explored
