At every step, the chains and their superstructure yield and spring, and there is no safeguard for the passenger but a small hand rail, which if leaned against gives the bridge a swinging motion, whilst beneath you yawns a black and horrid chasm, 60ft in depth, where the torrent rushes with a mighty noise amongst broken rocks.

It was restrained by further chains connecting the deck to the rock faces of the 60ft deep chasm below.

[7][6] Tradition holds, that it was the Holwick miners, employed at the Read-grove and Pike-Law lead mines, who constructed the bridge.

[5] It is believed that this would make it the first suspension bridge in Britain, and only the second in Europe, after the first in Saxony was built 7 years earlier.

[3][9] This replacement was financed by the Marquess of Cleveland, and was moved ten metres (33 ft) further downstream from Low Force, with more substantial metal pillars holding the chains to the rock.