Victorian and Earlier Bridges, Viaducts, and Aqueducts

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London

• The Albert Bridge over the River Thames by R. M. Ordish and Sir Jospeh Bazalgette
• Battersea Bridge
• (Old) Battersea Bridge
• Blackfrairs Bridge
• Fleet Bridge
• Hammersmith Bridge
• Holborn Viaduct
• London Bridge
• London Bridge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Old Putney Bridge
• Railway Bridge near Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Richmond Bridge
• Southwark Bridge (Post-Victorian)
• Tower Bridge by Sir Horace Jones and Sir John Wolfe Barry
• Vauxhall Bridge
• Waterloo Bridge
• Westbourne Terrace Road Bridge over Regent's Canal
• Westminster Bridge

Crossing rivers without bridges

• The Ford
• The Rope-Ferry
• The Thames Rotherhithe-Wapping Tunnel
• Weir, with movable bridge
• Weir, with fixed bridge
• Weirs and Locks on the River Thames (1875)

Outside London

• Albert Bridge, Glasgow
• Barmouth Bridge, Wales
• The Britannia or Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait
• The Britannia Tubular Bridge (Queen Victoria's visit to)
• Broomhill Bridge, over the Spey in the Scottish Highlands
• Buttington Bridge, Powys
• Caledonian Railway Bridge, Glasgow
• Chepstow Bridge over the R. Wye, by John Urpeth Rastrick
• The Chepstow Tubular Suspension Bridge (South Wales railway)
• City Union Railway Bridge, Glasgow
• Clifton Hampden Bridge by George Gilbert Scott
• Clifton suspension bridge from the ferry, Bristol
• Clifton suspension bridge from the north east cliffs, Bristol
• Conwy Bridge, N. Wales by Robert Stephenson and William Fairbairn
• Crown Point Bridge, Leeds

• Dinham Bridge and Ludlow, England
• Folly Bridge, Oxford
• Forth Bridge, Scotland
• Glasgow Bridge, Glasgow
• The High-Level Bridge, Newcastle, by Robert Stephenson
• The Hodshrove Skew-Bridge, Sussex, by John Urpeth Rastrick
• Kelvin Bridge or Great Western Bridge, Glasgow
• Kerne Bridge looking towards Ross
• Lendal Bridge, York
• Maidenhead Railway Bridge by I. K. Brunel
• Marlow Bridge by William Tierney Clark
• The Menai Bridge, Wales
• Bridge over the Monnow, Monmouth, England
• Bridge of Oich, Scottish Highlands
• Pipe Bridge and weir, Glasgow
• Rothern Bridge and Railway station, Torrington, England
• The Royal Border Bridge, Berwick-on-Tweed
• The Saltash Bridge by I. K. Brunel (1)
• The Saltash Bridge by I. K. Brunel (2)
• Scarborough Valley Bridge, Yorkshire
• The Severn Bridge, Sharpness
• S. Portland Street Suspension Footbridge, Glasgow
• Swing Bridge, Newcastle, by William George Armstrong
• The Tay Bridge, Scotland
• Sir Thomas Bouch's Tay Bridge and the Tay Bridge Disaster
• Trefechan Bridge over the Rheidol, Aberystwyth, N. Wales
• Victoria Bridge, Glasgow
• Warrington Transporter Bridge
• Waterloo Bridge, Betwys-y-Coed, N. Wales by Thomas Telford
• Lattice-Girder Bridge over the Wye

Viaducts and Aqueducts

• The Arten Gill Viaduct under construction, Cowgill, Dent, West Riding of Yorkshire
• The Avon Aqueduct, Linlithgow
• Bennerley Viaduct, Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire
• The Brighton [or London Road] Viaduct
• The Chapel Milton Viaduct, Rowley and Buxton Extension, Midland Railway
• The Daff Viaduct, Greenock and Wemyss Railway
• Dent Head Viaduct, Cowgill, Dent, West Riding of Yorkshire
• Findhorn Viaduct, Inverness-shire
• Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire
• Greenwich Viaduct
• Knaresborough Viaduct
• The Knucklas (or Cnwclas) Viaduct, Central Wales Railway
• Larpool or Esk Valley Viaduct, N. Yorkshire
• The Leaderfoot Viaduct, nr. Melrose, Scottish Borders
• Liskeard Viaduct, Cornwall
• The Loughor Viaduct, Swansea, S. Wales
• Ouse Valley Viaduct, Sussex (London & Brighton Railway)
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct by Thomas Telford and William Jessop
• Porthkerry Viaduct, nr Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, S. Wales
• Railway Bridge and Viaduct over the Mersey at Runcorn (London and North Western Railway)
• Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire
• Stanford Viaduct, Loughborough
• The Timber Viaduct from Cooper’s Bridge (on the South-Eastern Railway)
• Viaduct over the River Lune at Lancaster branch of the North-Western Railway to Poulton-le-Sands, 1849
• Victoria Viaduct, Sunderland
• The Welland (or Harringworth or Seaton) Viaduct, Northamptonshire
• The Welwyn Viaduct (Great Northern Railway)
• The Wharncliffe Viaduct by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Outside the UK

• The Anderson Bridge, Singapore
• The Cavenagh Bridge, Singapore
• The Chain Bridge, Budapest, by William Tierney Clark
• Hama-Nakatsu bridge, Jaapan
• Ha'penny (or Liffey) Bridge, Dublin
• Iron suspension bridge, Lyons, France
• Victoria Bridge, Montreal, by Robert Stephenson

Related Materials

• Good Intentions, Unexpected Consequences: Thames Pollution and The Great Stink of 1858
• Gertrude Jekyll on Traditional Pre-Victorian Stone Bridges in the U. K.
• Seaside Piers
• Engineering Wonders of the Victorian Age
• The Great Engineers
• The Great Inventors
• The Contractors, Great and Not so Great
• Civil Engineering in the Victorian Age
• The Institution of Civil Engineers

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