Chain Bridge (Berwyn)

The Chain Bridge is a footbridge over the River Dee at Berwyn, Llangollen, Denbighshire, north Wales.

Is owned by Llangollen Town Council and a pathway from Berwyn railway station, now part of the Llangollen Railway, leads under a subway and down to the bridge and to the Chain Bridge Hotel on the other side.

The first chain bridge was built by Exuperius Pickering in order to transport coal, lime, stone, etc from the Shropshire Union Canal, (Llangollen Canal) across the Dee to Telford's recently completed London to Holyhead road.

Permission to build it was granted in 1814 and it was completed by 1818, making it one of the first chain bridges in the world.

His father Henry Robertson provided loan funding to help found locomotive builder Beyer, Peacock & Company, at Gorton Foundry, Manchester (then-largest locomotive works in the country).