Bitterne
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Bitterne is an eastern suburb and ward of Southampton, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.
The pedestrianised area of Bitterne Road is a popular shopping precinct. This is the old junction of Bitterne Road and Portsmouth Roads looking east.
View over Southampton from Bitterne
Bitterne Library
Traffic on the A3024 Bitterne by-pass
Northam Bridge
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The Northam Bridge is a road bridge across the River Itchen in Southampton, England, linking the suburbs of Northam and Bitterne Manor. The current bridge was the first major prestressed concrete road
Bitterne
…built around this time, and Chessel House was built in 1796 by David Lance. Aware that access to his land was poor, Lance encouraged the building of a bridge over the River Itchen linking Bitterne Manor to Northam, and another bridge over the River Hamble at Bursledon, with a road linking the bridges meeting…
Aerial view of the bridge in 2016
The 1799 Northam Bridge