Radcliffe Bridge, River Irwell
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Radcliffe Bridge, River Irwell
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 8 Apr 2020
Looking upstream from Pilkington Way towards Radcliffe Bridge. The first bridge across the Irwell, at this site, was probably erected during the late Mediæval period at the site of a ford where the Manchester to Blackburn packhorse route (now Blackburn Street) passed through the hamlet which later became known as Radcliffe Bridge. Until the town centre by-pass (Pilkington Way) was constructed in the late 1980s, Radcliffe Bridge carried all the traffic across the Irwell as it passed through Radcliffe towards Bolton and beyond. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Radcliffe_Bridge.jpg - The first known photograph of Radcliffe Bridge, taken around 1854.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.55864
Longitude
-2.324374