Teignmouth Grand Pier

A total of 89 piers were built in England and Wales between 1814 and 1910 of which only 50 remain. Teignmouth Pier was built in 1865 by Joseph Wilson, an engineering consultant from London. Initially, the pier was a landing stage; its purpose was to enable steamboat passengers to get to the shore. In March 1870, a petition to wind up the Teignmouth Pier Company Limited was published in The London Gazette. The pier is constructed of cast-iron screw piles, screwed into the sand with a large hexagon on the pile. They are screwed down to the clay level. New steel piling has been driven 80 ft right to bedrock. The deck is open and made up of wood from the Yellow Balou, a hard wood from Borneo.…