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Winch Bridge, Durham, in Hutchinsons Tour
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View of the Winch Bridge across a rocky gorge
above the River Tees in County Durham. William Hutchinson,
antiquarian of Durham, wrote on the antiquaries or County Durham in
1785-1794. He commented "About two miles above Middleton, where the
river falls in repeated cascades, a bridge, suspended on iron
chains, is stretched from rock to rock, over a chasm near 60 feet
deep, for the passage of travellers, but particularly for miners;
the bridge is 70 feet in length, and little more than two feet
broad, with a handrail on one side, and planked in such a manner
that the traveller experiences all the tremulous motion of the
chain, and sees himself suspended over a roaring gulph, on an
agitated, restless gangway, to which few strangers dare trust
themselves." The earliest suspension bridge was built here in 1704.
This was a later bridge although it is not known who built it. In
1802 a man fell to his death from the bridge. It was replaced
altogether in 1830.
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Title: Winch Bridge, Durham, in Hutchinsons Tour
Description:
View of the Winch Bridge across a rocky gorge
above the River Tees in County Durham.
William Hutchinson,
antiquarian of Durham, wrote on the antiquaries or County Durham in
1785-1794.
He commented "About two miles above Middleton, where the
river falls in repeated cascades, a bridge, suspended on iron
chains, is stretched from rock to rock, over a chasm near 60 feet
deep, for the passage of travellers, but particularly for miners;
the bridge is 70 feet in length, and little more than two feet
broad, with a handrail on one side, and planked in such a manner
that the traveller experiences all the tremulous motion of the
chain, and sees himself suspended over a roaring gulph, on an
agitated, restless gangway, to which few strangers dare trust
themselves.
" The earliest suspension bridge was built here in 1704.
This was a later bridge although it is not known who built it.
In
1802 a man fell to his death from the bridge.
It was replaced
altogether in 1830.
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