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After the Normans established a castle at Chepstow (then known as Striguil), a wooden bridge was constructed across the river at or close to its current site. The first records of a bridge at Chepstow date from 1228. [2] [3] The wooden bridge is known to have been replaced several times. Rebuilding was made difficult by the tidal range ...
Old Tramway Bridge 1875 II: Tintern: Listed as the Old Tramway Bridge (formerly Wireworks Bridge), but also known as the Tintern Footbridge. Previously carried the Tintern Wireworks Branch, now a footbridge. [9] Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow
Until the bridge was completed and opened, through passengers were carried from one station to the other by coach, using the 1816 road bridge across the River Wye. The railway bridge was opened to public use for the first time on 19 July 1852; Chepstow East station closed at the same time as redundant.
The Wye was much later given a Latin name, Vaga, an adjective meaning 'wandering'. [6] [7] [8] The Tithe map references a Vagas Field in both Whitchurch and Chepstow. [9] Philologists such as Edward Lye and Joseph Bosworth in the 18th and early 19th centuries [10] suggested an Old English derivation from wæฤก, 'wave'.
Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow; P. Pant-y-Goitre Bridge; R. ... Smart's Bridge; W. Wye Bridge; Wye Bridge, Monmouth This page was last edited on 29 December 2013, at 07:06 ...
The 1816 Old Wye Bridge The Bridge and Castle at Chepstow at the end of the 18th century. Chepstow is located close to junction 2 of the M48 motorway, at the western end of the Severn Bridge. The bridge was opened in 1966 and has the second longest span of any bridge in the UK; it replaced the Aust-Beachley ferry.
Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow; W. Waterloo Bridge, Betws-y-Coed This page was last edited on 20 November 2017, at 18:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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