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Close ✕The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale
The first bridge in the world built of cast iron, cast at Coalbrookdale under Abraham Darby III and opened across the Severn gorge on New Year's Day 1781.
52.6, -2.5 · approximate · cast 1779, opened 1781; World Heritage inscription 1986
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- A place in: Industrial Revolution · 6 places
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- evidence for Iron — The bridge was built as a public demonstration that cast iron could take structural work previously reserved for stone and timber.
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