Is there a word for the end of a bridge?

I would like to say that someone is standing at the end of a bridge, waiting to meet someone else.

Is there a word for the end of the bridge, besides just 'end'?

I'm thinking something like a river's mouth.


It is called a head.

Either end of a bridge. [OED]

It is usually used as head of the bridge.

Another similar term is a bridgehead, which is mainly used as a military term, defined in OED as a fortification covering or protecting the end of a bridge nearest the enemy. [Translation of French tête de pont : tête, head + de, of + pont, bridge.]

AHD also gives another definition of bridgehead:

The area immediately adjacent to the end of a bridge.


transpontine = far side of the bridge

transpontine adjective:

situated on the farther side of a bridge

(Merriam Webster)