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Situated - River Waveney, Flixton Park, Homersfield, Suffolk
Engineer - Henry Eyton
Date - 1870
Era - Victorian
Grid Reference - TM282859
Homersfield Bridge is the oldest concrete bridge in the United Kingdown and is Listed, Grade II.
The bridge was an early experiment in combining iron and concrete, which predates the emergence of true reinforced concrete from France.
The bridge was commissioned by Sir Shafto Adiar, who owned the Flixton Hall estates of which it still forms a small part.
The single, shallow arch has a 50 foot span and a rise of 5 feet. It consists of a wrought iron frame of vertical girders, linkd on the underside of the arch to shallow joists set 2 feet apart and the whole encased in conrete.
Adair monograms decorate the bridge.
The road was deiverted over a new bridge in 1970 and the old route over the bridge is not a foot and cycle path.
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