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Steel engraving of a scene by the
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Glasgow Bridge was also the name of a proposed bridge. Designed by the
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204:"Glimpses of old Glasgow: Glasgow Bridges"
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255:Historic Environment Scotland
100:cable stayed compression arch
18:Glasgow Bridge, Kirkintilloch
603:Major bridges and crossings
58:and built by civil engineer
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1051:Bridges in Glasgow
1027:55.8555°N 4.2578°W
744:Uddingston Viaduct
644:Wandel Road Bridge
574:North Calder Water
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589:River Cart
564:Avon Water
524:Daer Water
514:confluence
450:Rutherglen
445:Cambuslang
440:Uddingston
425:Motherwell
410:New Lanark
364:Flows into
350:Inverclyde
239:28 January
213:28 January
145:28 January
118:References
104:Broomielaw
37:Laurieston
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874:Clyde Arc
475:Dumbarton
465:Clydebank
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435:Bothwell
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311:Scotland
264:20 March
1076:Gorbals
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455:Glasgow
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929:Severn
500:Dunoon
420:Wishaw
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266:2019
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