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Built over Cound Brook by Thomas Telford in about 1820. He built another iron bridge over the same small stream.
©Bob Bowyer
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©Mr M Evison
Dist:0.3km<br/>This bridge will be 200 years old next year. It has been superseded many, many times over in terms of bridge design and technology, but in terms of beauty and simplicity it would be hard to surpass.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>This bridge is important in that it is an early cast-iron bridge (being built in 1813) and also in that it didn't follow the design of a wooden bridge (unlike for example the iron bridge at Ironbridge), plus it was a Thomas Telford bridge (the Scottish civil engineer being County Surveyor for Bridges between 1787 and 1834) and in that it is the only cast-iron bridge still in-situ in Shropshire today, having stood here for 199 years, and counting.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>This cast-iron bridge was built in 1813 as part of a strategy to improve the network of roads and communication in Shropshire, aimed at improving trade. It was overseen by no other than Thomas Telford who was County Surveyor of Bridges for the county between 1787 and 1834, during which time he oversaw some 42 bridge building enterprises, some seven being in cast-iron. This is the only cast-iron example remaining in-situ today. Apparently the bridge was still used by traffic until the 1970's. Now it is by passed by a lovely 1970's concrete bridge immediately next door to it.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a detail of the structure of this cast iron bridge over the Cound Brook, built by Thomas Telford.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Row17
Dist:0.4km<br/>Built by Thomas Telford c1820
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km<br/>Built by Thomas Telford c1820
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km<br/>The one on the left heads north towards Shrewsbury. The one on the right is called Cliff Hollow ([[[2487070]]]) and heads east to Berrington.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.5km<br/>The local red sandstone much in evidence. This road is very narrow. Moments later a tractor appeared and I had to press myself into the embankment to avoid being harrowed (I may have invented that word).
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.9km<br/>This narrow track crosses Cound Brook and goes on to Cantlop.
©Michael Patterson
Dist:0.9km<br/>This lane drops away steeply here and then follows the Cound Brook valley.
©Michael Patterson
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>
©Row17
Dist:1.1km south<br/>
©Row17

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