Grosvenor Bridge (River Dee)
Grosvenor Bridge (River Dee) carries a footpath over the River Dee.
Early plans of what would become the River Dee were drawn up by Exuperius Picking Junior in 1888 but problems with Sumerlease Embankment caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1835. Orginally intended to run to Warrington, the canal was never completed beyond Preston. Expectations for pottery traffic to Glasgow never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. According to Oliver Edwards's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Birmingham Tunnel is haunted by the ghost of Cecil Yates, a navvy, who drowned in the canal one winter night.

There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| River Dee Junction | 7½ furlongs | |
| Chester Railway Bridge (River Dee) | 4 furlongs | |
| Grosvenor Bridge (River Dee) | ||
| Old Dee Bridge | 3 furlongs | |
| Chester Weir | 3½ furlongs | |
| Queens Bridge | 5 furlongs | |
| North Wales Expressway Bridge | 3 miles, 3 furlongs | |
| Iron Bridge | 6 miles, 1¼ furlongs | |
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Grosvenor Bridge, originally known as, and alternatively called Victoria Railway Bridge, is a railway bridge over the River Thames in London, between Vauxhall Bridge and Chelsea Bridge. Originally constructed in 1860, and widened in 1865 and 1907, the bridge was extensively rebuilt and widened again in the 1960s as an array of ten parallel bridges.






![River Dee, Grosvenor Bridge. The Grosvenor Bridge carries the A483 Grosvenor Road across the River Dee. The bridge was opened in 1833, having been built to supplement [[[2156056]]] a narrow medieval bridge which had become heavily congested, delaying movement through the town. At the time of its construction, Grosvenor Bridge was the longest single-span arch bridge in the world. It is a Grade I listed building.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge_(Chester) by David Dixon – 09 November 2010](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/15/66/2156604_c5d12736_120x120.jpg)
![Grosvenor Bridge. The Grosvenor Bridge carries the A483 Grosvenor Road across the River Dee. The bridge was opened in 1833, having been built to supplement [[[2156056]]] a narrow medieval bridge which had become heavily congested, delaying movement through the town. At the time of its construction, Grosvenor Bridge was the longest single-span arch bridge in the world. It is a Grade I listed building.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge_(Chester) by David Dixon – 09 November 2010](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/15/66/2156603_8b4a30a5_120x120.jpg)

![Grosvenor Bridge from the south west. The west face of the imposing Grosvenor Bridge with the River Dee below. There is an Ordnance Survey bench mark on the short smooth wall where it stands out from the main bridge structure - see [[4584900]] by John S Turner – 06 March 2015](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/58/82/4588230_af483f5c_120x120.jpg)
![River Dee, Grosvenor Bridge. The Grosvenor Bridge carries the A483 Grosvenor Road across the River Dee. The bridge was opened in 1833, having been built to supplement [[[2156056]]], a narrow medieval bridge which had become heavily congested, delaying movement through the town. At the time of its construction, Grosvenor Bridge was the longest single-span arch bridge in the world. It is a Grade I listed building.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Bridge_(Chester)This view is taken from the river bank, at Greenway Street. by David Dixon – 09 November 2010](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/15/60/2156072_b1f50d4f_120x120.jpg)



![Grosvenor Bridge from the river bank. A low tide, and a thin layer of brittle ice over the frozen mud, has allowed an unusually low view along the River Dee towards the Grosvenor Bridge. See also [[497846]] for a similar summer photo. by John S Turner – 06 January 2009](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/11/67/1116710_bc909d1d_120x120.jpg)








![Bench mark on the Grosvenor Bridge southern buttress. This bench mark is on the bridge buttress next to a riverside track far below the A483 road above. See also: [[4588230]] The red-roofed buildings across the river are the racecourse buildings on the Roodee. For details of the mark see the Bench Mark Database: http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm69221 by John S Turner – 06 March 2015](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/58/49/4584900_1f79b73b_120x120.jpg)


![The Roodee. Chester Racecourse near the River Dee. The works being carried out are the construction of a river bank footpath and cycleway. When this short section is completed, there will be level well surfaced river bank path to Hawarden Bridge station [[36611]] where it joins NCN route 5. by Dennis Turner – 13 October 2005](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/photos/06/81/068145_3c93bc29_120x120.jpg)



