Menai Suspension Bridge
Videos
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 Strait
Videos
The Menai Strait is a strait which separates the island of Anglesey from Gwynedd, on the mainland of Wales. It is situated between Caernarfon Bay in the south-west and Conwy Bay in the north-east, whi
Menai Suspension Bridge
…The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont y Borth or Pont Grog y Borth) 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 the world's first major…
The strait from Anglesey, looking towards Gwynedd, with the Britannia Bridge to the left.
The Menai Strait, painted 1860
A crab wearing a sponge suit seen underwater below the Menai Suspension Bridge
Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge.