Stoke Bridge - 1924-5 -Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
N 52° 03.108 E 001° 09.235
31U E 373417 N 5768407
The Stoke Bridge, built in 1924-5, spans the River Orwell in a north/south direction. As well as carrying four lanes of traffic it also has two footpaths.
Waymark Code: WM1638V
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/25/2022
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The Stoke Bridge
date plaque is located on the north east side of the bridge and reads:
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Stoke Bridge
Erected AD 1924-5
Engineer Sidney Little A M Inst CE
Boro' Engineer & Surveyor
Contractors D G Somerville & Co Ltd
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Wikipedia has an
article about Stoke Bridge that tells us:
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Stoke Bridge in Ipswich carries
Bridge Street (A137) over the point at which the River Gipping
becomes the River Orwell. It carries traffic into Ipswich from
the suburb of Over Stoke. The bridge consists of two separate
structures and is just upstream from Ipswich dock on a tidal
section of the river.
In 1789, Robert Ransome moved to Ipswich begin the “Orwell Works
company employeeing 1500 men. His fourth patent in 1808 was for
improvements on the wheel and spring ploughs. He was then joined
in business by his two sons and the firm “Ransome and Sons” was
one of the first to build iron bridges. The Stoke Bridge at
Ipswich was constructed by them in 1818.
There are records of a bridge existing on the site from the late
13th Century. The fact that the Domesday Book mentions Saint
Mary at Stoke implies that a crossing existed much earlier.
The bridge is featured in John Speed's map of Ipswich of 1610
and Joseph Hodskinson's map of 1783.
The southbound bridge has a plaque celebrating the bridge's
erection over 1924 and 1925. The bridge was the southernmost
crossing of the river in Ipswich until the construction of
Orwell Bridge in the 1980s.
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