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Menai Bridge (Welsh: Porthaethwy) is a small town on the island of Anglesey in north Wales. It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford. It is the third largest settlement on the island.
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The town existed as Porthaethwy for many centuries and it still has a house in current use which dates from the 17th century. It is likely that a community has existed at the location of Menai Bridge since Roman times simply because this is the shortest crossing of the Menai Strait. There is still a range of interesting buildings including the old court house, a number of old pubs and the buildings associated with the wood yard (in the process of being converted to houses).
The large car park to the north of the high street is the fair field. This is a common piece of land set aside for the holding of an annual fair, which, to the locals, is called Ffair Borth. When the fair comes to Menai Bridge on 24 October every year (unless it falls on a Sunday, in which case it is either held on 23 October or 25 October) it takes over the fair field and most of the other roads and streets in the town making passage through the town very difficult. This is an ancient tradition which attracts people from across the island who ignore the generally inclement weather to enjoy the traditional fair rides.
A television company has converted a disused garage into a fake row of shops in the centre of Menai Bridge as a film set for a children's programme Rownd a rownd shown on the Welsh language channel S4C. They also filmed the show in schools in the town, Ysgol y borth and Ysgol David Hughes.
On 12 November 1918 Air Marshal Sir Thomas Elmhirst flew airship SSZ73 under the Menai Bridge following the armistice at the end of World War I.
At the eastern edge of the town is Cwm Cadnant Dingle which is now by passed by a modern Bridge constructed in the 1970s. The Afon Cadnant drains into the Menai Strait at this point and this small estuary provides a natural haven for small boats crossing from the mainland. This was the location of the landing stage for the Bishops of Bangor who had their residence at Glyn Garth on Anglesey but whose cathedral was in Bangor on the mainland. Regrettably, the Bishop's palace has been destroyed in recent years and replaced by a block of flats.
Attractions in Menai Bridge include the 14th century Church of St Tysilio, St Georges Pier and a butterfly house - Pili Palas
There are a number of small islands in the Menai Strait some of which are connected to the town by causeways, including Ynys Faelog, Ynys Gaint and Ynys Castell east of the suspension Bridge and Church Island (Ynys Tysilio in Welsh) west of the Bridge. The Anglesey Coastal Path passes along the waterfront.
Menai Bridge has a wide selection of churches and chapels including a most unprepossessing catholic church. The town also has a primary school, Ysgol y Borth, and a large bilingual comprehensive school - Ysgol David Hughes.
The Menai Strait (Welsh: Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 14 miles (23 km) long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.
The
strait is Bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait
by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension Bridge, the first of its kind, opened
in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular
Bridge. Originally this carried rail traffic in two wrought-iron rectangular box
spans, but after a disastrous fire in 1970, which left only the limestone pillars
remaining, it was rebuilt as a steel box girder Bridge. When crossing the Britannia
Bridge from the Gwynedd bank, one might like to look down to the right to observe
a house built on a small outcrop of rocks Ynys Gored Goch, right in the middle
of the strait.
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The
Menai Suspension Bridge, or Pont Grog y Borth in Welsh, is a suspension bridge
between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford
and completed in 1826, it is one of the first modern suspension bridges in the
world. Prior to the bridge's completion in 1826 the island had no fixed connection
to the mainland and all movement to and from Anglesey were by ferry (or, with
difficulty, on foot at low tide). However, the Act of Union 1800 increased the
need for transport to Ireland, and with Holyhead as one of the principal terminals
to Dublin it was decided that a bridge was needed. Thomas Telford was assigned
the task of improving the route from London to Holyhead, and one of the key improvements
was his design of the suspension bridge over the Menai Strait between a point
near Bangor on the mainland and what was then the village of Porthaethwy which
is now also known as Menai Bridge on Anglesey. The design of the bridge had to
allow sailing ships 100 ft tall to pass under the deck at high water slack tide.
Construction of the bridge began in 1819 with the towers on either side of the
strait. These were constructed from Penmon limestone and were hollow with internal
cross-walls. Then came the sixteen huge chain cables, each made of 935 iron bars
that support the 176 metre span. To avoid rusting, each cable was first soaked
in linseed oil. The bridge was opened to much fanfare on January 30, 1826, and
succeeded in reducing the 36 hour journey time from London to Holyhead by 9 hours.
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