St. Ives Bridgedetails

The causeways on which many of the high roads still run remind us of the days not very far distant when the land was still exposed to floods; and the bridges at Huntingdon and St Ives rank high as examples of the architecture of the past. The bridge at St Ives still retains the old bridge-chapel, now converted into a house, which testifies to the sense of our ancestors of the perils of a journey. Everywhere there are traces of old0world life. The traveller feels that he is in Cromwell’s country, in the land where a sober discharge of daily duties taught one of England’s greatest heroes to understand the spirit of the nation’s past, and form a clear conception of its future mission. (p. 312)