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The Clifton Suspension Bridge opened in 1864, spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The Menai Bridge looks very similar and was desined by Thomas Telford in 1826. The Telford bridge was built later than the Menai bridge although the disigns for the Clifton bridge designe dates from the earlier 1826. The use of wrought Iron links was then the norm as steel cabels where not developed until about the 1840s although steel cables where used in bridges at the same time as this one was designed.



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