Bishopsford Road Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 51°23′43.38″N0°10′24.29″W / 51.3953833°N 0.1734139°W Coordinates: 51°23′43.38″N0°10′24.29″W / 51.3953833°N 0.1734139°W |
| Carries | Road |
| Crosses | River Wandle |
| Other name(s) | Mitcham Bridge |
| History | |
| Rebuilt | 2020/2021 |
| Location | |
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Bishopsford Road Bridge (also called Mitcham Bridge) is a bridge in London that carries a road over the River Wandle.
The bridge was rebuilt around 1759 with funding from the county of Surrey, though a bridge in this location had existed for some time prior. [1] The bridge was widened and a parallel pedestrian bridge built in the 1940s. [2] Work on stabilising the bridge was started in April 2019. [3]
The bridge collapsed on 14 June 2019 following flooding in the River Wandle four days earlier. [3]
As a result of the collapse, the route 118 bus had to be diverted. A temporary route, numbered 718, was introduced on 30 November 2019 with a half-hourly frequency to restore service from stops previously served by the 118 to Morden tube station. [3]
In 2020, the remains of the bridge were demolished. In October 2020, designs for a new bridge were approved. [4]
The bridge was reopened to cars in October 2021, but remains closed to buses. [5] [6]
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The Wrythe is a district of Carshalton, South London, located in the London Borough of Sutton. The area is located 9.3 miles South of Charing Cross and is surrounded by the adjacent areas of Hackbridge and Croydon to the east, Morden and Mitcham to the north, Sutton to the west. The area is commonly referred to as Wrythe Green which is located at the centre of the neighbourhood. It is thought that the name derives from a spring which is related to the River Wandle which runs through the east of the area from the Carshalton ponds. The Wrythe had a population of 10,163 in the 2011 Census.
Ravensbury Park is a public park in Mitcham in the London Borough of Merton. An area of 7 hectares is designated a Local Nature Reserve. The River Wandle runs along the southern boundary of the park, which is also part of the Upper Wandle River Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.
Phipps Bridge is a housing estate in Mitcham in the London Borough of Merton. It was built following a need created by the end of the Second World War on the site of old slums, and is named after a nearby bridge. Although it opened in the 1960s as a show-piece estate it took less than ten years for it to become a slum again, and the council continued to redevelop it into the 1990s.
Mitcham Vestry Hall is a municipal building in London Road, Mitcham, London. It is a locally listed building.
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