page_title: Walton Bridge
section_title: Third bridge
hierarchical_section_title: Walton Bridge / Third bridge
caption_attribution_description: English: Road and rail bridges across the Thames and side streams - Walton Bridge (Thames Bridges from the Tower to the Source, James Dredge, Jr., 1897)
context_page_description: Walton Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England, carrying the A244 between Walton-on-Thames and Shepperton, crossing the Thames on the reach between Sunbury Lock and Shepperton Lock.
  The bridge is the first Thames road bridge which is on both banks upstream of Greater London. The bridge is the sixth on the site. Before the first bridge, the site had a ferry dating at least to the 17th century.
context_section_description: The third bridge, built 1863–64, was an iron girder lattice bridge on stone piers. At the same time, a brick viaduct was constructed to span the flood plain to the south of the river.  The bridge was freed of tolls in about 1870.
  The third bridge was damaged during the Second World War in 1940 leading to a permanent weight restriction.  To alleviate this a fourth temporary bridge was constructed and the third bridge was relegated to use by cyclists and pedestrians. Robbins described it in 1953 as "an ungracious structure of iron lattice girders" in his county history.  Assisted by the weight restriction and metal design it was longer-lasting than the previous two bridges but was finally demolished in 1985.
caption: Third Bridge — James Dredge
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