Hoobrook Viaduct (Kidderminster)

United Kingdom / England / Kidderminster / Old Chester Road South
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A 20-arch, 371 yard (339 metre) long, 75 feet (23 metre) high viaduct built of 7 million blue bricks and erected in 1884-5 at a cost of £30,000.

It replaced an earlier structure with 24 timber spans on sandstone columns built c1851-2 and which partially collapsed in 1883. The sandstone abutments can still be seen.

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Photo: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1536343
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Coordinates:   52°22'15"N   2°14'30"W
This article was last modified 8 years ago