Footbridge Over River Cherwell at Parsons Pleasure Punt Rollers is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1998. Footbridge. 1 related planning application.

Footbridge Over River Cherwell at Parsons Pleasure Punt Rollers

WRENN ID
unlit-step-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1998
Type
Footbridge
Address
Footbridge Over River Cherwell at Parsons Pleasure Punt Rollers, South Parks Road, OX1 3JA
OS grid reference
SP 521 070
Coordinates
51.76003, -1.24603
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The footbridge over the River Cherwell at Parson's Pleasure punt rollers was built in 1949 and is now part of the Marston cycle track. Designed by R Travers Morgan and Partners, it features prestressed concrete with aluminium alloy parapets. The bridge has two post-tensioned portal frames with a clear span of 45 feet, which are rigidly fixed to their bases. The deck originally consisted of prestressed precast planks but has since been replaced with in situ concrete. This bridge is notable for being the first statically indeterminate prestressed concrete bridge in Britain and may also be the first prestressed fixed arch bridge in the world.

Local climate

Footbridge Over River Cherwell at Parsons Pleasure Punt Rollers sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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