Victoria Avenue Bridge
A single-arch bridge over the Cam, opened in 1890 to link Chesterton with the city.
Victoria Avenue Bridge, also called Victoria Bridge, takes Victoria Avenue over the River Cam in a single arch. North of it lie Chesterton Road and a busy meeting of roads where Victoria Road and Milton Road join. The structure is listed Grade II.
Why it was built
Until 1890 the only bridge into Cambridge from Chesterton, then a separate village and now a suburb, was Magdalene Bridge. An Act of 1889 allowed two new bridges across the river between Chesterton and the city, and this was the first of them. Its foundation stone was laid on 4 November 1889 by the mayor of Cambridge, and the bridge was officially opened on 11 December 1890. It was rebuilt to strengthen it in 1992. The second crossing, Elizabeth Way Bridge, did not arrive until 1971.
Victoria Avenue was laid out at the same time and runs south from the bridge between Jesus Green to the west and Midsummer Common to the east, a cut that split what had been one piece of land. The Jesus Lock footbridge is a short walk upriver.
Sources: Wikipedia: Victoria Avenue Bridge · Wikidata: Victoria Avenue Bridge (Q7926572)