The Second Severn Crossing is to be renamed The Prince of Wales Bridge, the UK Government has announced.
The renaming of the Second Severn Crossing will mark The Prince of Wales’ 70th birthday, and will also mark the 60th anniversary of The Queen giving The Prince of Wales his title at the closing ceremony of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958. The Prince at the time was nine-years-old.
The renaming would be marked in a special ceremony attended by The Prince in Wales later this year.
Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns MP said: “With the agreement of the Prime Minister and Her Majesty The Queen, the Second Severn Crossing will be renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge.
“The announcement is a fitting tribute to His Royal Highness in a year that sees him mark 60 years as The Prince of Wales and decades of continued, dedicated service to our nation.
“Renaming one of the most iconic landmarks in Wales is a fitting way to formally recognise his commitment and dedication to Wales and the UK as the Prince of Wales.
“We look forward to marking the occasion at a special event later this year when the new Prince of Wales Bridge and its sister bridge will be seen as positive symbols of a newly invigorated economic and social partnership between south Wales and south west England, and the strength of the United Kingdom.”
The Second Severn Crossing cost £332m to build over four years and was officially opened by Prince Charles in 1996. The original Severn Crossing, which opened in 1966, will keep its name.
If it has to be named after someone then Diana princess of Wales bridge or Michael Sheen bridge. Someone who is proud of Wales!
This is the best comment i have seen ” In a way it does represent HRH Charles. It’s long and boring, full of wind, takes money from the public for its own cause etc”
Why Welsh named, the bridge is not in Wales, why not the Churchill Bridge, Darwin Bridge, J.K.Rowling Bridge, Steve Redgrave Bridge, Brunel Bridge, King Edward Bridge, Geoff Hurst Bridge, Wilkinson Bridge.
I do like ‘The Churchill Bridge’, that has a resonance to it.
Funny I thought the bridge spanned the natural border between England and Wales therefore the bridge is half in Wales and half in England, and seeing that we collect the tolls the welsh should name it.
Given that the second Severn Crossing is managed by Highways England and is in the ownership of the UK Government they are the ones who get to name it. Carwyn didn’t object, if the good folk of Wales are so offended by the naming of the bridge it is Carwyn they should be complaing to. The Prince of Wales Bridge is pretty unimaginative, could have been David Lloyd George Bridge, Aneurin Bevan Bridge, Dylan Thomas Bridge or just leave it as the second Severn crossing.
We done have to bow constantly to England’s demands. This was approved by the first minister of Wales proving again that the assembly is just a talking shop who bows to Westminster. We have so many great welsh leaders and Princes of our own, without using English people. I personally think Glyndwr bridge or St David’s bridge or if they want a prince Llewelyn Bridge.
In that vein I would suggest Hywel Dda Bridge, commemorating a great Welsh king. Hywel had a proper codified system of laws drawn up. Reading them, laws on punishment for theft to divorce law, they stil make some sense – over 1,000 years later.