swinford

The new owner of the Swinford toll bridge near Oxford England won't be officially revealed until financial close, according to the auctioneer Neil Mackilligin.   All Mackilligan will say is that the buyer is a UK-based individual, who is not local to the area.

Bidding with a crowd of 700 people at Alsop's auction house in London December 3 began at pd800k ($1.28m) and the high bid was pd1.08m ($1.73m).

The Swinford toll bridge in Oxfordshire England sold today at auction in London for about $1.8m (1,080,000 pounds). The charming old stone arch bridge over the upper Thames located just west of the university city of Oxford is heavily used for its two narrow lanes  - over 10,000 vehicles average per day, so there is a good potential toll revenue stream. But the bridge's legal setting is an embodiment of English Eccentricity.