page_title: St Neots
section_title: St Neots (Southern) foot and cycle bridge
hierarchical_section_title: St Neots / Transport / Cycling / St Neots (Southern) foot and cycle bridge
caption_attribution_description: English: Riverside Park, St Neots
context_page_description: St Neots is a town and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire District of the county of Cambridgeshire, England, approximately 50 miles north of central London. The town straddles the River Great Ouse and is served by a railway station on the East Coast Main Line. It is 14 miles west of Cambridge, to which it is linked by the A428 arterial road. It is the largest town in Cambridgeshire and had a population of 30,811 in the 2011 census.
  The town is named after the Cornish monk Saint Neot, whose bones were moved to the Priory here from the hamlet of St Neot on Bodmin Moor in around 980 AD. Pilgrimage to the priory church and parish church brought prosperity to the settlement and the town was granted a market charter in 1130. In the 18th and 19th centuries the town enjoyed further prosperity through corn milling, brewing, stagecoach traffic and railways.
  After the Second World War the town and its industry were chosen for rapid growth as London councils paid for new housing to be built to rehouse families from London.
context_section_description: A foot and cycle bridge across the River Great Ouse was opened in 2011, linking Eaton Socon and Eynesbury and enabling the town to enjoy the riverside park using this crossing. A public consultation on the scheme was held in 2003 with public exhibitions held in December 2008. The new bow string arch bridge has a span of 346 m (1,135 ft) (including access ramps) and includes lighting and improvements to the connecting cycle paths.
  The scheme was supported by Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdonshire District Council and is a Sustrans Connect2 project. The bridge had an estimated construction cost of £3.5 million with Sustrans contributing an additional £700,000. The construction started in January 2011 and was completed on time and within budget during September 2011. The use of a Compulsory Purchase Order for the necessary land was approved. The route of the cycle way has connected Shakespeare Road, in Eaton Socon, to Barford Road, in Eynesbury and follows the southern boundary of St Neots Community School.
caption: Detail of tree-lined lake with swans in the Riverside Park
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