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in the town of

Teignmouth Teignmouth ( ) is a seaside town, fishing port and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is situated on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign, about 12 miles south of Exeter. The town had a population of 14,749 at the ...

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...

, England that measures in length. TeignmouthPier-beach

History

A total of 89 piers were built in England and Wales between 1814 and 1910 of which only 50 are still standing. Teignmouth Pier was built in 1865 by Joseph Wilson, an engineering consultant from London. Initially, the pier was a landing stage; its purpose was to enable steamboat passengers to get to the shore. In March 1870, a petition to wind up the Teignmouth Pier Company Limited was published in

The London Gazette ''The London Gazette'' is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are ...

. The pier is constructed of cast-iron screw piles, screwed into the sand with a large hexagon on the pile. They are screwed down to the clay level. New steel piling has been driven 80 ft right to bedrock. The deck is open and made up of wood from the Yellow Balou, a hard wood from Borneo. The deck was only recently renewed. During the Second World War, a 60–foot section of deck was removed so that the Germans could not breach if they invaded England. Nearly all the piers on the East and South coasts were dealt with in the same way. Compensation was paid out for replacement of that section but many remained in that state for a considerable period. The Grand was not brought to its original width until the early 1960s.

References

External links

*https://www.teignmouthpier.com *https://www.facebook.com/Teignmouth-Pier-2009934352603273/ *https://www.twitter.com/@PierTeignmouth
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