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Footbridge inspection letter from BCC dated 3-7-2024

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Below is copy of a letter received from BCC Highways dated 3 July 2024.  Please read carefully.    Directorate for Communities Highways and Technical Services Buckinghamshire Council Walton Street Offices Walton Street…

Consultation – Reforming approach to floods funding

Posted on July 2, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Consultation and call for evidence – Open until 29/7/2025 Reforming our approach to floods funding: Including a call for evidence on: alternative sources of funding; and English devolution and flood risk management…

The wooden footbridge problem in the Thames area

Posted on July 1, 2025July 1, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

The wooden footbridge short life expectancy problem in the Thames area is growing steadily.  Follow the links below for the details Temple Footbridge closed (May 2023) until further notice (maybe £8m to…

The Myrke Footbridge (Michael’s Bridge) Number 19

Posted on June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Today I visited the structure for the first time this year. It is impossible to view the sides and underside of the structure due to overgrown shrubbery.  A boat, drone and cherry-picker…

Ashford Lane footbridge – simply rotten

Posted on June 29, 2025June 30, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Ashford Lane footbridge – simply so rotten in more areas than you can possibly imagine – that it collapsed into the Jubilee River.  What an embarrassment!  I think there is a need…

Ashford Lane Footbridge – Failure analysis

Posted on June 29, 2025June 30, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Ashford Lane footbridge: A significant section of Ashford Lane footbridge over the Jubilee River in Dorney has collapsed. Failure analysis is a systematic process used to investigate and determine the…

Ashford Lane footbridge collapse – just the beginning?

Posted on June 29, 2025June 29, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Ashford Lane footbridge collapse – is this just the beginning?  Here we go again.  Apparently this (now collapsed) footbridge that previously carried the public footpath over the Jubilee River at Lake End…

Jubilee River footbridge collapsed (Number 10 – Ashford Lane).

Posted on June 28, 2025June 29, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Here we go again.  Footbridge number 10 over the Jubilee River has collapsed.  Known as ‘Ashford Lane’ and located in Dorney – this timber bridge was designed and constructed over the Jubilee…

The DRCCT and Datchet Parish Council

Posted on June 27, 2025June 30, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

Some newly co-opted Councillors and the Clerk on Datchet Parish Council are still asserting that they manage the DRCCT.  For the 2015 Datchet Parish election there were 23 nominations for 15 places. …

Clamped vehicles now gone

Posted on June 25, 2025June 25, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

  UPDATED 25/6/2025 And then they were gone – vehicles that have been left for many months and been clamped – have now gone. We have had a visit from the DVLA…

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  • Footbridge inspection letter from BCC dated 3-7-2024
  • Consultation – Reforming approach to floods funding
  • The wooden footbridge problem in the Thames area
  • The Myrke Footbridge (Michael’s Bridge) Number 19
  • Ashford Lane footbridge – simply rotten

DATCHET

The name "Datchet" is thought to be Celtic in origin, and the last part may be related to cet ("wood"). In the Domesday Book it is called "Daceta".lla. Datchet is first mentioned between 990 and 994, when King Ethelred made small grants of land here.

HORTON

The village name "Horton" is a common one in England. It is Old English in origin and derives from the two words horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Hortune.

WRAYSBURY

The village name was traditionally spelt Wyrardisbury; it is Anglo Saxon in origin and means 'Wïgrǣd's fort'. Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wirecesberie and as Wiredesbur in 1195. The name is seen again as Wyrardesbury in 1422.

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