Menai Suspension Bridge

Menai Bridge
Pont Grog y Borth

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From:

Bangor

To:

Porthaethwy/Menai Bridge

County

Caernarfonshire • Anglesey

Highway Authority

Gwynedd • Isle of Anglesey

Opening Date

1826

Additional Information

List No:	18572 (Grade I)
Bridge Type:	Suspension Bridge
Engineer:	Thomas Telford

On road(s)

A5

Crossings related to the A5

Stony Stratford Bypass • Waterloo Bridge (Caernarfonshire) • Marylebone Flyover • Pont Corwen • Dow Bridge • Stanley Embankment • Atcham Bridge • Stretton Bridge • Gailey Bridge

The Menai suspension bridge was built in 1825 by Thomas Telford to carry his Holyhead Road across the Menai Straits. Its chains are made from wrought iron which supported a wooden deck. The original deck was replaced in 1893 with a steel deck, and the chains themselves were replaced with steel chains by 1940.

As traffic levels increased, advantage was taken of a severe fire on the neighbouring Britannia Bridge to build a road deck on top of the railway, which relieved the Menai Bridge of most long distance traffic, and this now carries the A55 road.