Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017186
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017186
Above a small natural spring a white stone plaque, dated 1754, records that five companies of the 33rd Regiment built the road from here to the Spey. This marks one section of the military road system that extended control over the Highlands after the 'Forty-five. From Ruthven Barracks on the Spey near Aviemore, the road climbed the Lecht and ran southwards by the ganisoned Corgarff Castle, across Gairnshiel Bridge, then over the Dee by Major Caulfleld's majestic Invercauld Bridge, on past the garrison in Braemar Castle, and south over the Cairn well Pass to Blairgowrie and Perth. The well is small but the updertaking vast.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
