The Hertford Bridge
Stone skyway linking two college quadrangles over a narrow lane, carved with heraldic shields.
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This guide to the Hertford Bridge in Oxford starts with the carved shields on the arch above New College Lane, and asks why one bridge carries two sets of arms. It goes back to the eighteenth-century Hertford College founded by Richard Newton, and to the lean decades after his death when principals and students stopped coming. You'll meet Richard Hewitt, the last tutor still living in his rooms while squatters and missing books marked the college's final years. Best heard standing on the lane directly beneath the arch.
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