page_title: Wraysbury
section_title: New road and suspension bridge
hierarchical_section_title: Wraysbury / Wraysbury in the 19th century / New road and suspension bridge
caption_attribution_description: English: Tower, spire and rose window of Wraysbury Baptist Chapel, Berkshire (formerly Buckinghamshire)
context_page_description: Wraysbury is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in England. It is under the western approach path of London Heathrow airport. It is located on the east bank of the River Thames, roughly midway between Windsor and Staines-upon-Thames, and 18 miles west by south-west of London.
  Historically part of Buckinghamshire, Wraysbury was made part of the new non-metropolitan Berkshire in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. The Wraysbury Reservoir is located to the east, split in two by the historic border of Buckinghamshire with Middlesex if administratively wholly in the Spelthorne district of Surrey.
context_section_description: Where is Wraysbury, I can scarce find it on the map? asked an associate of G.W.J. Gyll. Once the railway had put the village on the map, the next steps were to improve road access, and more importantly, to alleviate the adverse effects of the frequent floods which often resulted in the village being cut off from the rest of the county. George Harcourt, Lord of the Manor, suggested that a new road should be built on higher ground from Bowry's Barn to the Colne Bridge, to replace the old road which ran along ditches susceptible to flooding. The 1848 Tithe map, drawn by surveyor W.T. Buckland showing the proposed route of the new road, can be seen at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies in Aylesbury. Harcourt also suggested a replacement for the old "Long Bridge" over the River Colne should be built, and a new suspension bridge, designed and paid for by Harcourt, was built by civil engineer Mr Dredge.
caption: Baptist chapel in Wraysbury
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