Staines Bridge

Staines Bridge
Staines Bridge from upstream
Coordinates	51°26′00″N 0°31′01″W / 51.43327°N 0.51690°W / 51.43327; -0.51690
Carries	A308 road, Thames Path
Crosses	River Thames
Locale	Staines-upon-Thames
Maintained by	Surrey County Council
Characteristics
Design	Arch
Material	Granite
No. of spans	3 (over water), 9 (total)
Piers in water	2
Clearance below	5.94 m (19.5 ft)[1]
History
Designer	George Rennie
Opened	1832
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Staines Bridge
Designated	11 August 1952
Reference no.	1187018
Location

Staines Bridge is a road bridge running in a south-west to north-east direction across the River Thames in Surrey. It is on the modern A308 road and links the boroughs of Spelthorne and Runnymede at Staines-upon-Thames and Egham Hythe. The bridge is Grade II listed.^[2]

The bridge crosses the Thames on the reach between Penton Hook Lock and Bell Weir Lock, and is close to and upstream of the main mouth of the River Colne, a tributary. The bridge carries the Thames Path across the river.

Its forebear built in Roman Britain, the bridge has been bypassed by three arterial routes, firstly in 1961 by the Runnymede Bridge near Wraysbury and in the 1970s by the building of the UK motorway network (specifically near Maidenhead and Chertsey). Owing to the commercial centres of the town in Spelthorne and of Egham, the bridge has had peak hour queues since at least the 1930s.