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FABULOUS FOLLIES
...and Landscape Curiosities

MIDDLEHAM, North Riding

Crenellated gable 

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Castellated Bridge                                                SE 119 887

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Joseph Aloysius Hansom built the bridge in 1829 and it is one of the country's earliest suspension bridges. The design, however, had faults and it collapsed the following year when a herd of cows crossing it caused it to vibrate. After being repaired in 1831, a toll was charged. The cast iron girders replaced the suspension chains in 1865.

Hanson was not only the inventor of the hansom cab but the founder of The Builder magazine.

 


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