Please suggest websites to this category if they provide factual information about bridges in the UK
In order to be listed, the website must show significance with respect to UK engineering, heritage or importance to the local society.
The website may be about one individual bridge or a collection bridges, past present and planned over one stretch of water in the UK.
If the website is primarily to promote a business building bridges, please suggest it to the the UK Business category for Structural Engineering.
This category is for websites about Robert Stephenson's tubular iron rail bridge opened in 1850, and the steel arch bridge built on the same site following fire damage in 1970.
The span is over the Menai Strait to the west of Bangor, to the Anglesey town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll.
The newer bridge is two tier and carries the railway into the town centre, whereas the upper tier carries the A55 trunk road from the south west of Bangor, and a ring road around the north of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, connecting the Welsh mainland with Anglesey, and onward to the Irish Sea ferry at Holyhead.
This category lists websites about the parabolic arc chain Suspension Clifton Bridge, completed in 1864.
It spans the Avon Gorge from Bristol to North Somerset.
Traffic is now dwarfed by the M5 over the mouth of the Avon, and the A370 into the city centre at lower ground.
Please only suggest websites to this category if they describe The Clifton Bridge, spanning the Avon Gorge
between Clifton and Abbots Leigh.
Websites for amenities and businesses on the east bank should be suggested to a subcategory of
the Clifton locality, whereas those on the
west bank should be suggested to a subcategory of the Abbots Leigh locality.
This category represents the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Forth Bridge,
inscription was approved by ICOMOS in their report dated 12 March 2015.
This category lists websites about the Humber Bridge, opened to road traffic in 1981,
and until 1998 was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
It spans the estuary of the Rivers Ouse and Trent before the Humber enters the North Sea,
and joins the A15 from Lincoln via the M180 to East Riding of Yorkshire.
Before rising over the Humber, the A15 by-passes Barton-upon-Humber.
The northern tower meets the East Riding of Yorkshire at Hessle.
The latter location serves as a means of revenue housing toll booths.
Please only suggest websites to this category if they describe The Humber Bridge between North Lincolnshire.
and East Riding of Yorkshire.
Websites for amenities and businesses on the north bank should be suggested to a
subcategory of the Hessle locality,
whereas those on the south bank should be
suggested to a subcategory of the Barton-upon-Humber locality.
This category is for websites about the first bridge to cross the River Thames from The City of London to Southwark on the south bank.
This dates back to Roman times from AD43, though this category lists websites to the bridges called London Bridge, that replaced this on the same site between present day bridges upstream at Southwark, and down stream at the Tower of London; Tower Bridge.
The present day London Bridge was opened to road traffic in 1974, after its predecessor from 1830 was dismantled to be
rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which had in turn replaced a 600-year-old medieval multiple arch structure, including gateways and houses.
Please only suggest websites to this category if they describe The London Bridge between Southwark and Tower Bridges.
Websites for amenities and businesses on the north bank should be suggested to a sub-category of the City of London locality,
whereas those on the south bank should be suggested to a sub-category of the Southwark locality.
This category lists websites about the first road crossing the Menai Strait from the west of Bangor, Gwynedd to the Island of Anglesey, Wales. The bridge was designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, now a Grade I listed building.
This category is for websites about the iron railway bridge dedicated to Victoria's Prince Albert, designed by I K Brunel, and opened just before his death 1859.
It was designed to span the tidal estuary of the Tamar, providing a 30m. clearance at high tide for naval ships.
The design predates the Through Arch types, since the wrought iron arch starts after beams on multiple stone pillar approaches, and the deck is kept level throughout with support of a single tubular arch, rising over the level deck throughout the span.
The bridge is also known as Saltash Bridge, since from Plymouth the first station on the west bank, and town is Saltash in Cornwall.
This category is for websites about the Suspension bridge constructed from 1959, and opened for road traffic in 1961, with expansion to two new parallel decks completed in 2001. The road bridge spans the mouth of the River Tamar, slightly upstream of railway, the Royal Albert Bridge, carrying the A38 main road between from Plymouth, Devon to Saltash, Cornwall.
This category lists websites about Tower Bridge; a combined bascule and suspension bridge built from 1886 to 1894, to cross.the Thames near the Tower of London, from Whitechapel to Bermondsey. The Thames estuary is navigable to ships, by the horizontaldeck normally carrying A100 road traffic lifting to each tower.
Please only suggest websites to this category if they describe The Tower Bridge, between the south bank of the Thames at Bermonsey, and the Tower of London.
Websites for amenities and businesses on the north bank should be suggested to a sub-category of the Tower Hamlets locality, whereas those on the south bank should be suggested to a sub-category of the Southwark locality.