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Cantlop Bridge

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Overview
Built in 1813, this innovative, single-span, cast-iron road bridge over the Cound Brook was possibly designed and certainly approved by the great engineer Thomas Telford.
Features

  • Opening Times
  • Open all year
  • Opening Times: Open at any reasonable time during daylight hours
Location
CANTLOP, SY5 7DD
About the area
Perhaps nowhere else in England will you find a county so deeply rural and with so much variety as Shropshire. Choose a clear day, climb to the top of The Wrekin, and look down on that ‘land of lost content’ so wistfully evoked by A E Housman.
Area image

Cantlop Bridge

Recommended by Visit England Logo
Overview
Built in 1813, this innovative, single-span, cast-iron road bridge over the Cound Brook was possibly designed and certainly approved by the great engineer Thomas Telford.
Features
  • Opening Times
  • Open all year
  • Opening Times: Open at any reasonable time during daylight hours
Location
CANTLOP, SY5 7DD
About the area
Area image
Perhaps nowhere else in England will you find a county so deeply rural and with so much variety as Shropshire. Choose a clear day, climb to the top of The Wrekin, and look down on that ‘land of lost content’ so wistfully evoked by A E Housman.