Menai Suspension Bridge
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Menai Bridge Pont Grog y Borth | |||||||
Location Map ( geo) | |||||||
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From: | Bangor | ||||||
To: | Porthaethwy/Menai Bridge | ||||||
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Caernarfonshire • Anglesey | |||||||
Highway Authority | |||||||
Gwynedd • Isle of Anglesey | |||||||
Opening Date | |||||||
1826 | |||||||
Additional Information | |||||||
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On road(s) | |||||||
A5 | |||||||
Crossings related to the A5 | |||||||
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.
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