Curse
Cursed Wedding Bridge
Brides and grooms still go the long way round.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Small village road bridge over the Goldbrook
- Legend from
- Anglo-Saxon, 869
- Tone
- Curious
Hoxne. If you are on your way to a wedding, take another road. This bridge has been cursed for over a thousand years.
Hoxne tradition says that when King Edmund fled the Danes in 869 he hid beneath the little bridge over the Goldbrook. A newly married couple crossing by moonlight saw his gilt spurs glinting in the water and gave him away. As he was dragged out, Edmund laid a curse on every bride and groom who should ever cross that bridge. Gurdon, writing in 1893, said wedding parties still went the long way round to avoid it. Some also claimed the king's armour could be seen glimmering in the brook. The bridge's name is said to come from those golden spurs.