Chapter V

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new battle-bridges essential, 355-61.

WARKWORTH BRIDGE, 93, 258, 261-2.

WARRINGTON BRIDGE, its date, 250 _footnote_.

WATERLOO BRIDGE, London, 325-6.

WATERMILLS ON BRIDGES, 209, 223-4; see also the picture of Millau Bridge facing page 352.

WAYSIDE SHRINES, 207, 230, 236, 246-7.

WEAVERS’ BRIDGE, Wycollar, Lancashire, 60-3.

WELLINGTON, DUKE OF, how he repaired the broken arch of the Puente Trajan over the Tagus, 16, 186; at Toulouse, 280; on blowing up modern bridges, 359.

WELSH BRIDGES, 45, 46; see also “Brecon,” “Llangollen,” “Pont-y-Pant,” and “Pont-y-Prydd.”

WEST RASEN, Lincolnshire, a bridge with a double ring of voussoirs, 305.

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, London, 327, 357.

WHEELED TRAFFIC always postulates some good roads and bridges, 22.

WHEELS, their wonderful importance in mankind’s history, 58, 154.

WIGRAM, EDGAR, artist and writer on Spain, vi, 27, 73 _et seq._, 104, 183, 185, 280, 285, 367.

WIGRAM, THE REV. W. A., D.D., his notes on Kurdistan bridges, 74-6.

WILTON BRIDGE, Ross-on-Wye, Elizabethan; see “Ross-on-Wye.”

WILLIAM, SAINT, and the Ouse Bridge at York, 241.

WINCHESTER, THE STATUTE OF, 207.

WINDMILLS AND BRIDGES, 208, 219, 224-5.

WITTENGEN BRIDGE, 142.

WORCESTER, BATTLE OF, and Old Pershore Bridge, 355.

WÜRZBURG BRIDGE, 259.

WYATT, SIR THOMAS, in the revolt of 1553, tried to cross the Thames, but was thwarted by the drawbridge on Old London Bridge, 261.

WYCOLLAR VALLEY, Lancashire, its primitive bridges, 60 _et seq._

XERXES, his bridge over the Hellespont, see “Bridge of Boats.”

YORK, Ouse Bridge at, 241 _et seq._

Y-SHAPED BRANCHES IN PRIMITIVE BRIDGES, 148.

ZAKHO, in Asiatic Turkey, the legend of its bridge, 65-6.

ZAMORA, Spain, her fortified old bridge, 285.

ZARAGOZA, her famous bridge, partly Roman, 187, 188.

ZENDEH RUD, Isfahan, 212-15, 268-70.

Transcriber’s Note:

Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These were left unchanged, as were obsolete and alternative spellings. Misspelled words were corrected. The captions to several images are not identical to the descriptions of them in the List of Colour Plates.

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter. Footnotes [109] and [115] have two anchors. Obvious printing errors, such as partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Mid-paragraph illustrations were moved to the nearest paragraph break.

“Lællenkœnig” was replaced with “Laellenkoenig” for consistency with other entries.