Bill Tennent's photos with the keyword: suspension

Whorlton Bridge and Tollhouse

12 Apr 2014 1 248
A suspension road bridge, built 1829-31 by John and Benjamin Green. Rock-faced piers, tooled-and-margined stone pylons. Wood-planked roadway; wrought-iron suspension chains and links. Single span of almost 53 metres. Battered rectangular-plan piers rising from massive plinth to a double blocking course. Each pier carries 2 battered corniced pylons, flanking roadway, and supporting blocks through which the double suspension chains pass. Roadway, 10 metres above river, has plain railings, continued to octagonal end piers with corniced caps, except to north-west where railings join toll house. Rare example of an unaltered early C19 suspension bridge.