. Vanishing England . n House of theseventeenth century, built by one of the rich clothiers ofBradford, when the little town (like Abingdon) stondethby clothing, and all the houses in the place werefiguratively built upon wool-packs. But we are think-ing of bridges, and Bradford has two, the earlier onebeing a little footbridge by the abbey grange, now calledBarton Farm. Miss Alice Dryden tells the story of thetown bridge in her Memorials of Old Wiltshire. It wasoriginally only wide enough for a string of packhorses topass along it. The ribbed portions of the southernmostarches and the piers f
. Vanishing England . n House of theseventeenth century, built by one of the rich clothiers ofBradford, when the little town (like Abingdon) stondethby clothing, and all the houses in the place werefiguratively built upon wool-packs. But we are think-ing of bridges, and Bradford has two, the earlier onebeing a little footbridge by the abbey grange, now calledBarton Farm. Miss Alice Dryden tells the story of thetown bridge in her Memorials of Old Wiltshire. It wasoriginally only wide enough for a string of packhorses topass along it. The ribbed portions of the southernmostarches and the piers for the chapel are early fourteenthcentury, the other arches were built later. Bradford be-came so prosperous, and the stream of traffic so muchincreased, and wains took the place of packhorses, thatthe narrow bridge was not sufficient for it; so the goodclothiers built in the time of James I a second bridgealongside the first. Orders were issued in 1617 and 1621for the repair of the very fair bridge consisting of many. - ll-ic Cravjt pricing 33© VANISHING ENGLAND goodly arches of freestone, which had fallen into cost of repairing it. was estimated at 200 is a building on the bridge corbelled out on aspecially built pier of the bridge, the use of which is notat first sight evident. Some people call it the watch-house, and it has been used as a lock-up ; but MissDryden tells us that it was a chapel, similar to thosewhich we have seen on many other medieval belonged to the Hospital of St. Margaret, which stoodat the southern end of the bridge, where the GreatWestern Railway crosses the road. This chapel retainslittle of its original work, and was rebuilt when the bridgewas widened in the time of James I. Formerly therewas a niche for a figure looking up the stream, but thishas gone with much else during the drastic a bridge-chapel existed here is proved by Aubrey,who mentions the chapel for masse in the middest ofthe bridge at Bra
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