Waterloo Bridge, Betws-y-Coed

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Waterloo Bridge
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Coordinates
Carries	Motor vehicles (2 lanes) Pedestrians
Crosses	River Conwy
Locale	Betws-y-Coed
Characteristics
Design	Arch bridge
Material	Cast iron
Longest span	32m (105 ft)
Number of spans	1
History
Designer	Thomas Telford
Construction end	1815

This article is about the bridge at Betws-y-Coed. For other uses, see Waterloo Bridge (disambiguation).

Waterloo Bridge is an early cast iron bridge, spanning the River Conwy at Betws-y-Coed, in Conwy county borough, north-west Wales.

The bridge is located about half a mile south-east of the village. It was built by the civil engineer Thomas Telford. An inscription on the arch records that it was constructed in the year of the Battle of Waterloo, but although designed and constructed in 1815, its erection was not completed that year. It was raised as part of building the road from London to Holyhead (now the A5). The bridge is made wholly from cast iron (apart from the stone bastions) and was only the seventh such bridge to be built.

See also

• List of bridges in Wales

References

• Quartermaine et al. (2003) Thomas Telford's Holyhead Road: The A5 in North Wales, Council for British Archaeology ISBN 978-1-902771-34-2

External links

• Waterloo Bridge at Structurae

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Waterloo Bridge