Magdalen Bridge
There was a wooden bridge crossing the River Cherwell at this point as early as 1004. By the sixteenth century this had been replaced by a stone bridge c.500 feet long with about twenty arches.
The old stone bridge was condemned as dangerous, and was replaced by the present one, designed by John Gwynn and built by John Randall, under the Oxford Mileways Act of 1771.
May morning on Magdalen Bridge, early 1900s
As this Inscription on the side of Magdalen Bridge near the Botanic Garden shows, the bridge was widened by twenty feet on the south-west side and both parabets were rebuilt by the Oxford Local Board in 1882–3.
