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In 2004, the council installed an information board about the history of the bridge and Mardol, at the bottom of Mardol on the approach to the site of the bridge. Only one dry arch of the old St George's Bridge now remains, on the
Frankwell side. The arch was excavated during the construction of
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341:New discoveries at Frankwell site
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347:Historic Bridges of Shropshire
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706:Coombe Hill
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599:Cound Brook
501:Settlements
359:Cragg, R.,
111:John Leland
88:Mardol Gate
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871:Categories
802:Great Ouse
638:Flows into
609:River Teme
594:River Tern
558:Gloucester
553:Tewkesbury
533:Bridgnorth
528:Ironbridge
523:Shrewsbury
508:Llanidloes
442:Shropshire
335:References
323:5 December
298:5 December
158:JMW Turner
139:drawbridge
92:Welsh Gate
72:Shrewsbury
29:52°42′37″N
676:Droitwich
629:River Usk
619:River Wye
573:Avonmouth
548:Worcester
543:Stourport
518:Welshpool
160:in 1794.
80:Frankwell
32:2°45′24″W
691:Coalport
568:Chepstow
563:Berkeley
477:Somerset
205:See also
538:Bewdley
513:Newtown
487:Cardiff
482:Newport
467:Bristol
273:20 July
195:England
189:is the
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787:Severn
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797:Trent
437:Powys
430:areas
232:Notes
851:Eden
846:Nene
841:Avon
826:Spey
816:Ouse
379:ISBN
365:ISBN
351:ISBN
325:2017
300:2017
275:2023
268:Tate
199:CofE
171:The
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821:Tay
812:Ure
807:Wye
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