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- The Iron Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Opened in 1781, it was the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast...
- 384 tonnes of iron would have been needed to building the Bridge, which would have taken three months continuous production in one of Darby’s furnaces.
- The Iron Bridge crosses the River Severn at the Ironbridge Gorge, by the village of Ironbridge, in Shropshire, England.
- Curiously, despite The Iron Bridge being celebrated as the world’s first cast iron bridge, the structural integrity was in a seriously poor condition.
- The Iron BridgeYönetmen Monika Jordan-Mlodzianowska.
- The Grade I Listed, Iron Bridge first opened in 1781 and was the first ever bridge to be built from cast iron.
- Overseen by Darby’s grandson Abraham Darby III after Pritchard’s death, it was to be a cast iron single-span bridge of 30 metres, with five main semicircular ribs.
- It was in November 1777 that Abraham Darby III began erecting the 378 tons of cast iron to build the bridge which spans the 30 m/100 ft of the Shropshire gorge.