The Iron Bridge

The Iron Bridge

Year

1781

Type

building

The Iron Bridge crosses the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire as a single-span cast-iron arch of 100 ft 6 in (about 30.6 m), built in 1779 as the first major bridge in the world to use cast iron as its principal construction mater …

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