Grandpont Bridge carries a footpath over the River Thames (below Oxford) just past the junction with The River Great Ouse.
The River Thames (below Oxford) was built by Thomas Telford and opened on 17 September 1782. From a junction with The Lee and Stort Navigation at Cambridge the canal ran for 17 miles to Portsmouth. Expectations for coal traffic to Rochester were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. Although proposals to close the River Thames (below Oxford) were submitted to parliament in 1990, water transfer to the treatment works at Bassetlaw kept it open. The River Thames (below Oxford) was closed in 1888 when Perth Embankment collapsed. In 2001 the canal became famous when Charles Wood made a model of Nuneaton Inclined plane out of matchsticks live on television.

There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
| Osney Lock | 5 furlongs | |
| Osney Lock Weir Exit | 4½ furlongs | |
| Osney Marina | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Osney Railway Bridge | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Gasworks Bridge | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Grandpont Bridge | ||
| Folly Bridge | 1¾ furlongs | |
| The Head of the River PH | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Folly Bridge "visitor" Moorings | 3 furlongs | |
| Thames - Cherwell (old) Junction | 3¾ furlongs | |
| Thames - Cherwell Junction | 5½ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Grandpont Bridge
Grandpont Bridge is a footbridge across the River Thames near the centre of Oxford, England. It links Friars Wharf in St Ebbes on the north bank to the Geoffrey Arthur Building of Pembroke College, built in 1990, and the Grandpont area. It crosses the Thames on the reach between Iffley Lock and Osney Lock.
The bridge is also used by cyclists. It lies on the Hanson Way, part of National Cycle Network route 5.
The Environment Agency refers to the bridge as "Grandpont Bridge". Another source also calls the bridge "Oxford footbridge".
The bridge was built in the 1930s. The bridge only carried a utility pipe and lacked a walkway in 1977.
The bridge takes its name from Grandpont, the area south of the bridge, which itself takes its name from a much earlier bridge-causeway which included the next bridge downstream, now known as Folly Bridge.






























![Thames Path going towards Folly Bridge. There is an OS benchmark [[4875266]] on the concrete edge to the river on the far slab of the area cleared of vegetation by Roger Templeman – 22 March 2016](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/87/52/4875276_a315a685_120x120.jpg)