Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

It is five miles in length, with a width of of 100 feet for the greater part, and cost £800,000. In the course of its construction a railway station at Hotwells had to be destroyed, and 1¼ miles of line abandoned. Bridge Valley Road had to be slewed inland about 30 feet, necessitating the blasting away of some 25,000 tons of rock.

Three massive concrete embankment walls of a total length of three-quarters of a mile had to be erected to support the river bank (one of the walls collapsed into the river,