Sonning Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames at Sonning, Berkshire. It links Sonning with Sonning Eye (Oxfordshire) and crosses the Thames on the reach above Shiplake Lock, just short of Sonning Lock. It is a brick arch bridge completed in 1775, to replace an earlier wooden bridge. The bridge has been the subject of many paintings and prints by artists and is a Grade II listed building.
Sonning Bridge on the downstream side, from the Thames Path footbridge
Print of Sonning Bridge, 1799
Sonning is a village and civil parish in Berkshire, England, on the River Thames, east of Reading. The village was described by Jerome K. Jerome in his book Three Men in a Boat as "the most fairy-like little nook on the whole river".
The River Thames, Sonning
Print of Sonning Bridge (1799) with the tower of St Andrew's Church, Sonning, in the background.
The playwright Sir Terence Rattigan, who lived at The Red House in Sonning, 1945–47.