Cooks Bridge carries a farm track over the River Kennet just past the junction with Sir Exuperius Picking Junior's Canal.
Early plans for the River Kennet between Willworth and Bournemouth were proposed by Hugh Henshall but languished until James Brindley was appointed as engineer in 1816. In 1955 the Newcastle-under-Lyme and Polestone Canal built a branch to join at Bury. Expectations for pottery traffic to Polstan never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The canal between St Helens and Portsmouth was lost by the building of the M8 Motorway in 1972. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by the River Kennet Society.

There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
| High Bridge Reading | 1 furlong | |
| Yield Hall Place Bridge | 1 furlong | |
| Delphi Bridge | ½ furlongs | |
| Cooks Bridge | ||
| Bridge Street Bridge No 2 | ¾ furlongs | |
| County Lock No 106 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Winding Hole above County Lock | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Inner Distribution Road Bridge No 4 | 2 furlongs | |
| Lower Brook Street Mooring | 2½ furlongs | |
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![Oracle Riverside with flowers (2). The Riverside area of the Oracle Shopping Centre in Reading, looking upstream towards Cook's Bridge from the semi-circular bridge. The water is the River Kennet Navigation. This is the obverse view to [[5378781]]. by Chris Wood – 05 May 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/37/87/5378790_5865ad7a_120x120.jpg)


![Lemoni by the Kennet. When I first took a photo here it was occupied by Chili's, [[780249]]. by Mr Ignavy – 03 August 2021](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/92/44/6924434_d9405574_120x120.jpg)



















