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Menai Bridge
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Menai Bridge

Small town on the Isle of Anglesey, northwest Wales, on the Menai Strait; population (2001) 3,850. It is a suburb of Bangor, to which it is linked by the suspension bridge across the strait. Its English name is derived from the bridge, which was completed in 1825 to a design by Thomas Telford. The town is a centre for angling and fishing. An annual fair, held in October, dates from 1691.

The bridge was the world's first example of a large iron suspension bridge.



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