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Pontypridd Bridge

bridge, Wales, United Kingdom

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construction

In bridge: Stone arch bridges
…bridge in the British Isles—the Pontypridd Bridge (1750), over the Taff in Wales, with a lofty span of 42 metres (140 feet). In London the young Swiss engineer Charles Labelye, entrusted with the building of the first bridge at Westminster, evolved a novel and ingenious method of sinking the foundations,…
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history of Pontypridd

In Pontypridd
A single-span 140-foot (43-metre) bridge over the Taff, no longer in use, was constructed in 1736 by William Edwards, a local stonemason. Pop. (2001) 33,233; (2011) 32,694.
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