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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox Bridge Bloomers Hole Footbridge is a footbridge across the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. It is situated on the reach above Buscot Lock and was installed in 2000 to carry the Thames Path across the Thames. It is built of steel encased in wood to make it look like a timber structure.

The Countryside Agency commissioned Oxfordshire County Council to design and build the bridge and the design was undertaken by Charlie Benner, the senior engineer.[1] The bridge was installed in 2000. The two Шаблон:Convert 8-tonne steel beams were put in place by a Chinook helicopter from RAF Brize Norton.[2]

Bloomer's Hole is at a wide bend about quarter of a mile downstream of St John's Lock. The river winds tortuously along here, and although a cut of the river across Bloomer Meadow was mooted as early as 1802, it was never implemented.[3]

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  1. Statutory instrument authorising construction
  2. Swindon Advertiser, Friday 26 May 2000.Шаблон:Dead link
  3. Fred. S. Thacker The Thames Highway: Volume II Locks and Weirs 1920 - republished 1968 David & Charles