14322

 

II  

Designated  

14/02/1994  

14/02/1994  

Foryd Bridge  

 

Denbighshire  

Rhyl  

 

 

299542  

380644  

 

Carries the road over the River Clwyd at the western boundary of the town.  

Transport  

 

The first bridge on the site was erected by the Rhyl Bridge Company in 1862 and was operated as a toll bridge; it was purchased by the 2 county councils of Flintshire and Denbighshire in 1925. By then in a very poor condition, it was replaced by the present bridge, which opened to traffic in 1932. This was designed by the county surveyor of Flintshire, Mr D G Whitley, in association with Messrs. Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, and was constructed by the engineers Dorman, Long & Co.  

Steel arch ‘bowspring’ bridge of 2 spans, each of 150 feet with paired central iron drum supplrts. Reinforced concrete abutments, side-bridges to either side, and sea-wall to E. Concrete side bridges of triple flat arched span, with shallow stepped parapets continuing as sea-wall retaining the roadway on NE side. Main spans comprise parallel welded steel arched trusses, with road-bed carried on girders. Vertical posts brace the trusses, which are also braced laterally and longitudinally at the centre of the span. Cantilevered footways to either side, with cast-iron hand rails.  

 

A striking example of civil engineering which forms a notable landmark at the mouth of the River Clwyd.