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    898811; -1.386928 The Woolston Floating Bridge was a cable ferry that crossed the River Itchen in England between hards at Woolston and Southampton from...
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  • Cowes Floating Bridge Torpoint Ferry Woolston Floating Bridge In music, a type of bridge (instrument) Fender floating bridge Singaporean bridge, a card...
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    concerns on the effects it would have on navigation. Instead the Woolston Floating Bridge was built which opened in 1836. In 1926, in the context of the...
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    cross free. A cable ferry served Woolston from 1938 until the opening of the bridge. Prior to the Woolston Floating Bridge, the Itchen ferry boats provided...
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    Bridge, a high-level toll road bridge connecting the docks area with Woolston. This replaced the Woolston Floating Bridge (a chain ferry) which had previously...
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    the HM-2, was used by Red Funnel between Southampton (near the Woolston Floating Bridge) and Cowes. The world's first car-carrying hovercraft was made...
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    Saltash across the Tamar, and between Woolston and Southampton across the Itchen. The Woolston Floating Bridge switched from chains to wire ropes between...
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    city council, to acquire the running of both the Woolston Floating Bridge, as well as the Northam Bridge. The act also permitted the expansion of the Southampton...
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    Northam Bridge company responded to the opening of the Woolston Floating Bridge by reducing their tolls by three quarters. The wooden Northam Bridge was replaced...
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  • England: Itchen Ferry village, took its name from the above boat Woolston Floating Bridge, historically referred to as the Itchen Ferry Itchen (disambiguation)...
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    Crosshouse Road next to the Woolston Floating Bridge ramp; the site is currently under the western end of the Itchen Bridge. During the winter of 1971–72...
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  • South Hants Hospital is formed. 1836 The Woolston Floating Bridge (Ferry) connects Southampton to Woolston and Portsmouth on the east bank of the River...
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    the area between Southampton Terminus railway station and the Woolston Floating Bridge, which at the time was an undrained marsh to be developed on by...
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  • being floating bridge number 10, launched in 1928. The floating bridge was opened in 1836 and connected Southampton to Woolston At that time Woolston was...
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  • would have crossed the river by means of the Itchen ferry and the Woolston Floating Bridge that had been constructed in 1836. By the time of his marriage...
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    ferry" was also used to describe the Floating Bridge when it was introduced in 1836, to meet greater demand as Woolston expanded and became busier with the...
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    chain ferry was introduced, to a design similar to that already in use at Woolston. The chain ferry ceased operation in 1959. Upon the takeover in 1963, the...
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  • at the yard at Woolston, England. In 1966 the company merged with Vosper & Company. The combined company continued production at Woolston, and the ships...
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    carry the name, was built in 1968 by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Woolston and operated as a car ferry between Southampton and East Cowes until 1994...
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    England. It is located between the districts of Bitterne, Thornhill and Woolston. Various explanations from where the name derives but the most popular...
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  • England. 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015. Norgate, Martin and Jean (2001). "Mans Bridge". Old Hampshire Gazetteer. University of Portsmouth. Archived from the original...
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  • 2012. "Central Bridge Southampton". Railway Structures. Southern E-Group. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012. "Southampton's Central Bridge closes for year...
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    the River Itchen by the lords of the manors of Woolston and Southampton. Lords of the manor of Woolston were paid in cash. Lords of the manor of Southampton...
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    Weaver Sluices, accessed by boat, this task is performed by a floating crane. Woolston Siphon Weir, built in 1994 to replace an earlier structure and...
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    operates, albeit much updated. A similar floating bridge was implemented as the Woolston ferry between Woolston, Hampshire and Southampton in 1836. During...
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    network, with routes going to many places over the City, including the Floating Bridge, Royal Pier, and Millbrook Road. In the earlier days buses were stored...
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    In 1839, another new road was built to provide access to the Floating Bridge at Woolston. This new road cut through the centre of Botley Common, opening...
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    contentious locally. The Itchen Bridge is a road bridge that charges tolls, connecting the docks area with Woolston. It spans 2,625 ft (800 m) and the...
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    13 dry dock (having relocated there from the old Thornycroft Yard in Woolston, Southampton). Modular construction of warships took place in an interlinked...
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  • For Ministry of War Transport. 11 March  United Kingdom J I Thornycroft Woolston Zodiac Z-class destroyer 12 March  United States St. Johns River Shipbuilding...
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