Over Wyre from the Air
Shard Bridge looking down stream
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Shard Bridge looking down stream
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The original bridge was built in 1864, and it went on to replace a ferry service between Stanah and Wardley's Creek further downstream to the west.The first of two modern incarnations of the bridge was rebuilt in 1993, moving the structure a few yards downstream.
Formerly a toll bridge, Shard Bridge is now a free municipal crossing.
The Roman ford would have been in about the centre of the area shown, on the line of the very long hedgerow on the left which ends in a cutting through the bank down to river level and a scattering of large stones visible at low tide