Old Man's Bridge

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Old Man's Bridge is a wooden footbridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the reach above Rushey Lock, a short way downstream of Radcot Lock. ()

Opened: 1894 (130 years ago)Coordinates: 51°41'59"N, 1°34'5"W

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Old Man's Bridge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cotswold Wildlife Park, Trout Inn, Buscot House, St Mary's Church.

6.2 miNW
Landscaped parkland filled with animals
Cotswold Wildlife Park, Burford
158 min walk • Nestled in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside, Cotswold Wildlife Park is a tranquil escape into the animal kingdom, situated near the picturesque town of Burford, United Kingdom. This expansive wildlife park, set within the beautiful gardens of Bradwell Grove...
4.8 miW
Nightlife
Trout Inn, Lechlade
122 min walk • The Trout Inn is a pub next to the River Thames at Lechlade in the English county of Gloucestershire. The Grade II listed stone building consists of two two-storey structures, one late medieval and the other added in the 18th century.
4.1 miSW
Historical place, Park, History museum
Buscot House, Faringdon
104 min walk • Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian.
2.1 miNE
Church, Romanesque architecture
St Mary's Church, Bampton
54 min walk • The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Bampton, West Oxfordshire. It is in the Archdeaconry of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford. The church was built in the 10th or 11th century as an Anglo-Saxon minster with a tower.
4.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Badbury Hill
107 min walk • Badbury Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Great Coxwell near Faringdon in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire. The summit of the hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort known as Badbury Camp. It is roughly circular in shape, most of which was levelled early in the 19th century.
2.8 miS
51°39'32"N • 1°34'17"W
Faringdon Folly Tower, Faringdon
72 min walk • Historical place, View point, Forts and castles
5.3 miE
Church
St Mary's Church
134 min walk • St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Longworth, Oxfordshire. The church is a Grade I listed building.
5.2 miSE
Forts and castles
Cherbury Camp
134 min walk • Cherbury Camp is a multi-vallate hill fort-like earthwork, situated at grid reference SU374963, 1 mi to the north of the village of Charney Bassett in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
3.7 miNE
Church
Cote Baptist Chapel
94 min walk • Cote Baptist Church stands in Shifford Road, Cote, 1 mile to the east of Aston and 4 miles to the east of Bampton, in Oxfordshire, England. It is a redundant Baptist chapel in the care of the Historic Chapels Trust, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
1 miSW
Bridge
Radcot Bridge
26 min walk • Radcot Bridge is a crossing of the Thames in England, south of Radcot, Oxfordshire, and north of Faringdon, Oxfordshire which is in the district of that county that was in Berkshire. It carries the A4095 road across the reach above Radcot Lock.
3.4 miE
Bridge
Tenfoot Bridge
87 min walk • Tenfoot Bridge is a wooden footbridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the reach above Shifford Lock and was built in 1869. It connects Buckland on the south bank to Chimney on the north. The name derives from a pre-existing weir which had a 10-foot-wide flash lock in it.