Sandon Bridge No 83 carries a farm track over the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Great Haywood to Etruria) near to Oxford.
The Act of Parliament for the Trent and Mersey Canal (Main Line - Great Haywood to Etruria) was passed on January 1 1888 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlebury to London canal at Willchester, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Thurrock at Bury caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Southworth instead. "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Thomas Taylor describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Arun Tunnel.

There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.
| Upper Burston Bridge No 86 | 1 mile, 2 furlongs | |
| Lower Burston Bridge No 85 | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Flute Meadow Bridge No 84 | 2½ furlongs | |
| Sandon Winding Hole | 1 furlong | |
| Sandon Lock No 25 | a few yards | |
| Sandon Bridge No 83 | ||
| Salt Bridge No 82 | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Sandy Lane Winding Hole | 1 mile, 3 furlongs | |
| Stockings Brook Aqueduct | 1 mile, 5 furlongs | |
| Sandy Lane Bridge No 81 | 1 mile, 6¾ furlongs | |
| Gayton Brook Aqueduct | 2 miles, ½ furlongs | |
- Trent & Mersey Canal Society – founded in 1974 — associated with Trent and Mersey Canal
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