The first bridge over the Wye, 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) below its source. A steel beam structure with a wooden deck, 10 metres (33 ft) long with two cylindrical columns mid-span.
Built to serve the lead mines in Nant Iago. The bridge was strengthened in 1975 to allow road vehicles from the Institute of Hydrology to reach a weir upstream of the bridge.
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Pont Rhydgaled
1800[4]
Pont Rhydgaled
Carries the A44 over river just above its confluence with the Afon Tarenig.
A single-span made of three continuous truss girders of welded steel, built by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers.
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Rhayader road bridge
Carries the B4518 road.
Glyn Bridge
Llanwrthwl Bridge
Yr Allt Farm bridge
Farm access
Newbridge-on-Wye Bridge
Brynwern Bridge
Builth Road Railway Bridge
Near Builth Road railway station.
Located on the Heart of Wales Line.
Wye Bridge, Builth Wells
II
Builth Wells
Erwood Bridge
Erwood
Carries the B4594 road.
Lady Milford’s Bridge
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Llanstephan
Boughrood Bridge
II
Glasbury Bridge
Hay Bridge
Crossed over the river from Radnorshire to Brecknockshire as well as the currently closed Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway. It is near the former Hay-on-Wye station which is on the southern side in Herefordshire.
Whitney-on-Wye Railway Bridge
Demolished on the former Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway which is closed.
Whitney-on-Wye toll bridge
II
Bredwardine Bridge
II
Bridge Sollers Bridge
Hunderton Bridge
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Hereford
On the former Goods Line, part of the original Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
Greyfriars bridge (A49 road)
Wye Bridge (Hereford)
I
Late C15, widened 1826.
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Victoria Bridge
II
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Footbridge over River Wye. c1897. Built by Findlay of Motherwell. Concrete piers.
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Greenway Bridge
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Rotherwas, Hereford
Bridge links the Bartonsham and Rotherwas areas of Hereford.
Eign Bridge
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Rotherwas, Hereford
Built as part of the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway which line is largely closed apart from the section here which is part of the Welsh Marches Line.
Carried the closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway over the river, the bridge decking is demolished.
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Hoarwithy Bridge
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Sellack Suspension Bridge
II
Foy Bridge
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Strangford Railway Bridge
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Closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line. Decking spanning the river demolished.
Backney Railway Bridge
–
Closed Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway line.
Bridstow Bridge
–
Bridstow bridge, completed in 1960, carries the A40 trunk road over the river Wye near Ross-on-Wye.
Wilton Bridge
I
Stone bridge. In 1597 an Act was passed authorising its construction. It was completed within the next 2 years. 5 semicircular arches each with 3 ribs.
Kerne Bridge
II
Road bridge. 1828 by B D Jones. Ashlar. Five-span bridge with large central arch flanked by graded arches.
Welsh Bicknor Railway Bridge
–
On the closed Ross and Monmouth Railway.
Huntsham Bridge
II
Hand ferry at the Ye Old Ferrie Inn
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Symonds Yat
Hand ferry at the Saracens Head Inn
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Symonds Yat
Biblins Bridge
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Site of Biblins Youth Campsite
Wye Bridge (Monmouth)
II
Built in 1617
Duke of Beaufort Bridge
II
Monmouth Troy
Built in 1874. It is listed (as a historic structure) simply as the Railway Bridge, Monmouth.
Listed as the Old Tramway Bridge (formerly Wireworks Bridge), but also known as the Tintern Footbridge. Previously carried the Tintern Wireworks Branch, now a footbridge.
Built in 1852 as part of the South Wales Railway. It also brought the closed Wye Valley Railway into Chepstow station. It now carries the Gloucester to Newport Line.
Built in 1966, it carried the M4 motorway between England and Wales until the opening of the Second Severn Crossing in 1996. It now carries the M48 motorway.
The tunnel is 47.5 m deep, with a diameter of 3.05 m and a total length of 3,678 m.[10] The tunnel carries two 400 kV circuits, each with three cables.[11]
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