Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929286
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929286
Bridge of Dye, Glendye
The Bridge of Dye, built in ca.1680, crosses the Water of Dye with a single semicircular arch of 43 ft span. The bridge, the second oldest on Deeside, was an important improvement on the line of the Cairn o’ Mount section of the old military road between Edinburgh and Fochabers. It has recently been bypassed by a new bridge alongside carrying the B974 road.
The arch is constructed of roughly dressed masonry and, in the manner of the Bridge of Dee at Aberdeen, is supported on stone ribs, in this case by four ribs spaced 212 ft apart. The roadway is 11 ft 8 in. wide between parapets.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
