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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 ...
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.
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
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.
The Wye Valley Railway [note 6] was authorised by the Wye Valley Railway Act 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. ccclvii) on 10 August 1866. [11] [1] Share capital was to be £230,000. It was to run from a junction with the CMU&PR at Wyesham, near Monmouth, to Wye Valley Junction, near Chepstow. [12] [1] [13] [7]
Bridgend, Old Bridge: c. 1425: II* Glamorgan Bridgend Repaired after flood damage 1775, restored 2005, now footbridge. [11] Brynderwen Bridge: 1852: II* Montgomeryshire Powys Across the River Severn, designed by Thomas Penson. [12] Builth Wells, Wye Bridge: 1779: II: Radnorshire Powys Widened 1925. [13] Buttington Bridge: 1872: II ...
Chepstow is a historic walled border town and ancient port, situated at the southern end of the Wye Valley, two hours from London. The line continues east from the station to Gloucester over the Chepstow railway bridge. It was formerly the junction station for the Wye Valley Railway to Monmouth Troy station until this line closed to passengers ...
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 ...