Menai Suspension Bridge

1826
designer
177 m
road bridge
Menai Strait
suspension bridge
steel
SH 5567 7140
Comments :
The wrought iron suspension bridge along the Telford-engineered Holyhead Road is built until 1825. The bridge is exposed to high winds and strong tides. Until the last repair in 2005 were replaced the wooden deck with a steel deck and the wrought iron chains with steel ones. It is the only bridge I know with a door to the abutment with a letterbox (Bridgemaster's House). The design for Runcorn Bridge was built, in time and looking much better, over the Menai Straits. Telford had also the idea of an iron arch. [LIFE] 217, 566, 569, Telford Lot T65, [TROY] 482, 483, 487, 526, 559, 560, [WALES] 11, [ENCY] 167, [GIBB] 304, [BURT] 215, [RICH] 39, [MORR] 6, 116, 118, [SMIL] 262
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