Description

The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden footbridge in the southwest of central Cambridge.

It bridges the River Cam about one hundred feet northwest of Silver Street Bridge and connects two parts of Queens' College.

Its official name is simply the Wooden Bridge.

A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts.

Various stories relate how at some point in the past either students or fellows of the University attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together, but were unable to work out how to hold the structure together, and were obliged to resort to adding nuts and bolts.