Winthorpe Bridge

The contracts for the bridge were awarded on 20 March 1962 for £495,695, and construction began on 16 July that year. The 6 miles bypass was to cost £3,250,000. It was opened on 27 July 1964, by Ernest Marples. The bridge was constructed by the Danish bridge-builder Christiani & Nielsen. Another Danish civil engineering company Bierrum built the nearby cooling towers, along the River Trent to the north. The Newark bypass was built by Robert McGregor & Sons who would have laid the concrete pavement on the bridge. The north-bound surface had the concrete pavement laid in forty days, with three concrete-batching sites along the bypass preparing the concrete. The bridge was Grade II* listed on…

The bridge crosses the River Trent in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, which is the third-longest river in England, at 185 miles. It is a reinforced-concrete bridge made out of nine box girders.