Hampden Bridge (Kangaroo Valley)

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Hampden Bridge is a suspension bridge across the Kangaroo River, located in the Australian town of Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales. Designed by Ernest M. de Burgh, The Assistant Engineer for Bridges in New South Wales at the time, it was built to replace the decaying timber Truss bridge which originally spanned the Kangaroo River. Construction began in 1895 and the bridge was opened on the 19 May 1898 - six days before floods washed the old bridge away.[1]

The bridge is 77 metres long (252 ft), one lane wide, and features four castle-like turrets made of locally quarried sandstone. A well-known local tourist attraction, Hampden Bridge, named after Lord Hampden, Governor of New South Wales from 1895 to 1899, is the only surviving suspension bridge from the colonial period in New South Wales.[2]

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  1. ^ "Hampden Bridge, Kangaroo Valley, NSW",Timber Building in Australia Accessed 19 September 2006.
  2. ^ "Hampden Bridge",Kangaroo Valley Tourist Accessed 19 September 2006.
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