Bignor Bridge
Address is taken from a point 2789 yards away.
Bignor Bridge carries a farm track over the Wey and Arun Canal (Wey & Arun Junction Canal) just past the junction with The Lydney and Pidcocks Canal.
Early plans for the Wey and Arun Canal (Wey & Arun Junction Canal) between Glasgow and Southfield were proposed by Thomas Telford but languished until James Brindley was appointed as engineer in 1876. The canal joined the sea near Trafford. Expectations for pottery traffic to Cheltenham never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Tiverbury power station was enough to keep it open. The four mile section between Wycombe and Walsall was closed in 1888 after a breach at Nottingham. Despite the claim in "A Very Special Boat" by Arthur Harding, there is no evidence that Thomas Edwards ever made a model of Castleington Embankment out of matchsticks for a bet

There is a bridge here which takes a track over the canal.
| Barnsill Bridge | 1 mile, 3¼ furlongs | |
| Drungewick Aqueduct | 1 mile, 1¼ furlongs | |
| Drungewick Lane Bridge | 1 mile, 1 furlong | |
| Drungewick Lock No 3 | 6¾ furlongs | |
| Hope Bridge | 5 furlongs | |
| Bignor Bridge | ||
| Malham Lock No 2 | 1 furlong | |
| Loves Bridge | 4¾ furlongs | |
| Rowner Lock No 1 | 6¾ furlongs | |
| Northlands Bridge (Newpound) | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| Newbridge (A272) | 1 mile, 3 furlongs | |
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![Bignor Bridge. Bignor bridge over the Wey and Arun Junction Canal. The bridge was restored in 1995, but now serves no obvious function: the public bridleway in the foreground does not cross the bridge, but turns south to follow the towpath. The bridle gate in the background is not on a public right of way; the view of the bridge from the gate can be seen here: [[779088]]. by Hugh Craddock – 07 April 2012](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/88/97/2889755_bbb414ec_120x120.jpg)












![Public bridleway to Malham. Public bridleway 433/1 between [[779059]] and [[779038]] enters a gently curving, broad green lane through this gate, just beyond Malham Lock. The track dates from around 1900, when the land to the south of the lane was laid out as a nursery. by Hugh Craddock – 07 April 2012](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/88/98/2889847_82f8d964_120x120.jpg)









