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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 578233
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578233
This slender 3 ft wide estate footbridge, now ruinous, spans the Nith about 25 ft above the water. It is one of
very few surviving structures of this genre developed by Robert Stevenson and others from the 1820s. The main span is about 42 ft and the side span 24 ft. The iron deck stringer beams originally derived support
from 34 in. diameter tension rods beneath, anchored to the approach stringers but, as these rods have become
detached from their deck spacers, the stringer beams now solely support the deck. The bridge is almost certainly that shown on the 1856 Ordnance Survey map and may date from the 1830s. The iron stringers and supports may have originally been timber. The bridge is now unsafe and closed.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
