Having done some mental sums, realise that I need to dig a little deeper to find that thousand miles. So, now walking to work! The 1.4 miles there and back will make up may be a couple of hundred miles over the year.
I pass over Brown's Bridge on my way to work.
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| This is the original Brown's Bridge, built in the eighteenth century. |
There are actually two Brown's bridges. The recent one, built in 1929, which carries the road traffic, and the original, built in the eighteenth century, which runs along side it and now carries only a small side road to a cul-de-sac. It was described in 1928 as "a very narrow and dangerous bridge ... at which slight accidents have frequently occurred." What is presumably the name of the builder or builders are inscribed on a central stone of the older bridge, but the letters are so worn in places no proper word or name can be made out.
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| The 1929 bridge with the River Stowe |
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| My route to work - Banbury Road |
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