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Zeal Bridge
Colles Road,, CASTLEMAINE VIC 3450 - Property No B6850
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Zeal Bridge is historically, socially and aesthetically significant at State level.
It is the last surviving example of a series of stone-iron-timber bridges built largely from local sandstone after the devastating Castlemaine floods of 1889 demolished many timber bridges. That use of stone-masonry in conjunction with wrought-iron girders represented a continuation of British traditions of bridge building in the colony of Victoria, where British capital had largely financed the
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B6850
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State
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