High Street Bridge (Halberton) carries the road from Ambersfield to Chelmsford over the Grand Western Canal just past the junction with The Middle Level Navigations.
The Grand Western Canal was built by Charles Green and opened on January 1 1888. In 1905 the Southstone and Manchester Canal built a branch to join at Gloucester. Expectations for stone traffic to Wessfield were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by the Grand Western Canal Trust.

There is a bridge here which takes a track over the canal.
| Sampford Peverell Winding Hole | 1 mile, 5¼ furlongs | |
| Sampford Peverell Bridge | 1 mile, 4 furlongs | |
| Battens Bridge | 7½ furlongs | |
| Watton Bridge | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Rock House Bridge | 2½ furlongs | |
| High Street Bridge (Halberton) | ||
| Greenway Bridge (Halberton) | 1¾ furlongs | |
| Sellake Bridge | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Dudley Weatherley Jubilee Lift Bridge | 1 mile, 5¼ furlongs | |
| Tiverton Road Bridge | 1 mile, 5¾ furlongs | |
| Crownhill Bridge | 1 mile, 7½ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about High Street Bridge
The High Street Bridge is a double-leaf bascule drawbridge spanning 296 feet of the Oakland Estuary in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. It links the cities of Oakland and Alameda. The bridge is opened approximately 1,400 times a year. The bridge carries an average of 26,000 vehicles per year. The bridge was built when the Oakland Estuary was trenched, converting Alameda from a peninsula to an island.
The High Street Bridge is one of the four bridges and two tunnels that allow access to Alameda.

![Buckling ice, Grand Western Canal. Ice buckling beneath the former swing bridge from which [[2194948]] was taken. Presumably the water under the bridge was the last to freeze, and ice plates from each direction met here. by Derek Harper – 06 December 2010](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/19/49/2194975_c983fd31_120x120.jpg)










![Grand Western Canal. The frozen canal near Halberton, seen from the path leading to the bridge shown in [[1176468]]. by Derek Harper – 06 December 2010](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/19/49/2194929_135375ee_120x120.jpg)







![Grand Western Canal. A view from the bridge shown in [[1176468]], looking in the other direction, with the frozen canal bending past Valley House. by Derek Harper – 06 December 2010](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/19/49/2194948_3c3942ab_120x120.jpg)









