Kingston Bridge

The Earl of Liverpool laid the first stone on 7 November 1825 and the Duchess of Clarence opened the bridge on 17 July 1828. It replaced a medieval timber bridge that had become dangerously dilapidated; until Putney Bridge opened in 1729, the crossing here was the next one upstream from London Bridge. Mott & Hay widened the carriageway from 25 feet to 55 feet in 1912-14, reopening in October 1914, and a second widening in 2000 took it to 79 feet, adding cycle lanes, wider pavements and a bus lane. Hampton Wick station, at the far end of the bridge, is in Richmond upon Thames.