Godmanchester Chinese Bridge is a landmark of the town of Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire, England). It is a pedestrian bridge that spans the River Great Ouse and is, as the name suggests, built in an ostensibly Chinese style. The original was constructed in 1827 to designs by the architect Gallier, but it fell into a bad condition and was replaced with a replica by the local council in 1960.

Local legend has it that when the Chinese Bridge was built without the use of nails or any other fixings. A number of years later, an architect applied to the council for permission to deconstruct the bridge to discover how exactly this had been accomplished. This being done, they tried to reconstruct the bridge again, but found that they could not get it to support itself under its own weight! Today the Chinese Bridge is held together by nails.

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This Bridge is North Wales in the Snowdonia National Park

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This amazing Railway Viaduct, built over the River Welland floodplain. It was built between 1876 and 1878, it took 2000 men and 15 million bricks to build the 82 Arches 60feet above the valley floor. It is 3/4 of a mile long and spans two Counties, between the villages of Seaton (Rutland) and Harringworth (Northamptonshire). occasional Trains still use the Viaduct but generally it is not in use anymore.

To get a better panoramic view see next photo.

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I tried to get as low as possible for this shot without disturbing the Geese. Later in the day A couple Who had married in the Local Church, were having Wedding Photo's taken from this bridge.

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This Stretch of Water between North Wales and Anglesey (an Island), is known as The Menai Straights. To take the road over the Menai Strait to Anglesey, Thomas Telford designed the world's first major suspension bridge (1819-1826), with a main span of 176 m (580 ft) in which the deck is suspended by 16 wrought-iron chains weighing over 2,000 tonnes. This photo was taken on the Anglesey side, and the mountains covered in cloud are those of Snowdonia. I was lucky because a ray of sunshine shone on the Bridge as I took the Photograph.
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