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Cobweb Bridge

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Designed by Sheffield City Council's Structures Section, the entire 330-foot (100 m) long bridge is suspended on a web of steel cables secured to the underside of the viaduct, hence the name. Completing the theme, large steel likenesses of spiders conceal the overhead lighting.
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in the past (the wires forming the parapet having been stolen more than once), the bridge was repaired in 2015 to reduce the risk of future vandalism. The newly restored bridge no longer uses wires in the parapet, having been replaced with metal plates with spiderweb designs.
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from Blonk Street, near the centre of Sheffield, eastwards to Meadowhall. The bridge is held in place by a lattice-work of suspension and tensioning cables and sits over the waters of the Don and below the railway arches of the old Victoria Station, now long
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viaduct while linking one bank of the River Don to the other. Without the Cobweb Bridge, the footpath would have had to make a one-mile detour.
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Cobweb Bridge forms part of the Five Weirs Walk along the
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River Don
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
England
Sheffield Victoria railway station
Five Weirs Walk
Wicker Arches
vandalism
List of bridges in the United Kingdom
"Cobweb Bridge, Sheffield UK"
the original
"Completed Cobweb Bridge showing the spider covered lights"
"Cobweb bridge makes website"
"Sheffield City Council - Cycle Schemes"
the original
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Sheffield
Central Library
City Hall
Cutlers' Hall
Jessop Hospital
National Union of Mineworkers headquarters
Northern General Hospital
Old Town Hall
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Royal Infirmary
Shrewsbury Hospital

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