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Suspension bridges in England (1 C, 12 P) S. Suspension bridges in Scotland (8 P) W. Suspension bridges in Wales (4 P) Pages in category "Suspension bridges in the ...
Clifton Suspension Bridge at www.ikbrunel.org.uk Archived 9 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Time-lapse video showing the bridge as the tide changes and night time arrives on YouTube Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust papers, 1829–1939 University of Bristol Library Special Collections
Suspension Bridge over the New River Ancholme: Horrabridge Bridge: Devon: Horrabridge: c. 1400: I: spans the River Walkham: Hulme Arch Bridge: Greater Manchester: Manchester: 1997: carries Stretford Road over Princess Road Humber Bridge: East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Kingston-upon-Hull: 1981: longest single-span bridge in the UK ...
Pages in category "Suspension bridges in England" ... Wilford Suspension Bridge This page was last edited on 2 January 2025, at 12:09 (UTC). ...
Broughton Suspension Bridge (England) was an iron chain bridge built in 1826. One of Europe's first suspension bridges, it collapsed in 1831 due to mechanical resonance induced by troops marching in step. As a result of the incident, the British Army issued an order that troops should "break step" when crossing a bridge.
The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of the main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspension bridges, often correlating with the height of the towers and the engineering complexity involved in designing and constructing the bridge. [4]
Broughton Suspension Bridge was an iron chain suspension bridge built in 1826 to span the River Irwell between Broughton and Pendleton, now in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. One of Europe's first suspension bridges, it has been attributed to Samuel Brown, although some suggest it was built by Thomas Cheek Hewes, a Manchester millwright ...
The Severn Bridge (Welsh: Pont Hafren) is a motorway suspension bridge that spans the River Severn between South Gloucestershire in England and Monmouthshire in South East Wales. It is the original Severn road crossing between England and Wales, and took three and a half years to build, [7] at a cost of £8 million. [8]