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  1. In 1858 a young woman broke a champagne bottle against the new timber bridge at Clarendon. The ford it replaced had tested every cart and carrier on the road south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber was rotting — the ford pressed into service one last time before a concrete arch took its place.

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