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The World's Second Iron Bridge

Situated on the western bank of the River Trent in the grounds of recently re-developed Trentham Garden. Beneath the footings of the present bridge are the footings of the world's second oldest Iron Bridge. Designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard it was built here in 1794. It was commissioned by the 2nd Lord Gower who, as owner of the Lilleshall Estate, controlled a large part of the Coalbrookdale coalfields and ironworks. Sadly it is believed that the designer lived to see neither this or the first cast iron bridge of Thomas Telford completed.