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Ashford Lane footbridge – simply rotten

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

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Ashford Lane footbridge:  Failure analysis is a systematic process used to investigate and determine the root cause of a failure in a product, component, or system. It involves examining 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 27, 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…

Jubilee River – the 23rd Anniversary

Posted on June 21, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

The Jubilee River (the main element of the Maidenhead, Windsor and Eton Flood Alleviation Scheme) was ceremonially opened by Prince Andrew in July 2002. You can read what was reported at the…

RBWM paid ‘gravy train’ firm £500,000 for Maidenhead Golf Course deal

Posted on June 19, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

This is an extract from the Slough Observer – RBWM paid ‘gravy train’ firm £500,000 for Maidenhead Golf Course deal   By Nick Clark – Local Democracy Reporter Windsor and Maidenhead council paid…

Black Potts footbridge (over the Jubilee River between Datchet and Eton) still closed until further notice!

Posted on June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

  UPDATED BELOW 18-6-2025 I have now reported that the closed Black Potts footbridge on RBWM Datchet Footpath 4 has no advance warning or diversionary signage.  RBWM is awaiting an engineer’s inspection…

New EA Jubilee (River) web site

Posted on June 14, 2025 by ecwlarcombe

This is information from the Environment Agency. Please note the name change (the word ‘River’ is now replaced by ‘Flood Relief Channel’) and the EA claim to be the ‘main source of…

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  • Ashford Lane footbridge – simply rotten
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  • Ashford Lane footbridge collapse – just the beginning?
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  • The DRCCT and Datchet Parish Council

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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