It spans the River Cherwell, which is also the boundary between the civil parishes of Wardington (which includes Williamscot) and Cropredy.

The bridge has three spans, a reinforced concrete deck and is faced with Hornton stone.

On 23 October 1642 King Charles I and part of his Royalist army crossed the bridge en route from Edgcote, Northamptonshire to Edge Hill, Warwickshire to confront a Parliamentarian force led by Earl of Essex in the Battle of Edgehill.

[2][6] The bridge may have been damaged in the battle, as there was repair or reconstruction work in 1691, according to the date on a capstone on its cutwater.

In 1776 the Trinity sitting of the Oxfordshire quarter session was told that the bridge was "in great decay broken and ruinous".

The Vicar of Cropredy, Dr William Wood, opposed this clash of materials with the existing part of the bridge, which was of local Hornton stone.

[12] The trees were so well-established that Oxfordshire County Council considered the only way to remove them was to demolish the bridge.