Dell Bridge is a

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in Port Sunlight, Wirral, England. It is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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. The bridge was built with

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in 1894 for

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in their model village of Port Sunlight and was designed by the

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architects' firm of Douglas and Fordham. It carries a pedestrian walkway over a landscaped hollow which had been formed from a former tidal inlet. It is a saddle-back bridge with a parabolic arch.Alamy
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. The bridge is supported by buttresses, and at each end is a canted projection with decorative panels. There are hard wood benches by the walkway. Originally there were ball

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s on the bridge, but these are no longer present.

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Grade II listed buildings in Merseyside Bridges completed in 1894 John Douglas buildings Bridges in Merseyside Stone bridges in England Pedestrian bridges in England Stone arch bridges {{UK-listed-building-stub

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