Knight Architects’ stainless-steel bridge opens in Lake District
10 December 2020 By Fran Williams. Photography by Tom McNally
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The 55m-long crossing – the UK’s first stainless-steel road bridge – replaces a 250-year-old three-span stone arch bridge, destroyed by flooding five years ago
The crossing straddles the River Eamont at Pooley Bridge at the Lake District s north-eastern gate. It replaces the historic 18th-century stone arch Pooley Bridge, the village’s namesake, which was destroyed during Storm Desmond in December 2015. A temporary bridge has been in place since March 2016.