Menai Suspension Bridge
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The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was one of t
The Menai Suspension Bridge viewed from the Anglesey side
1840 lithograph of the bridge
The bridge c. 1880, showing the original cable configuration prior to the installation of steel cables in 1938
The bridge as pictured in a Staffordshire stoneware plate in the 1840s. (From the home of J L Runeberg)
Menai Bridge
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Menai Bridge is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales. It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, just over the
Menai Suspension Bridge
…best option was to build a bridge over the Menai Strait from a point near Bangor on the mainland to the village of Porthaethwy (now commonly known as Menai Bridge) on Anglesey. The site for the bridge was chosen because it had tall banks that would be high enough to allow sailing ships to pass underneath. Telford…
Menai Bridge in mist
St Tysilio's Church on Church Island
Menai Bridge High Street looking east
Cadnant Dingle January 2005