Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 578453
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578453
An elegant five-span low-rise segmental arch masonry bridge with a central span of 45 ft built over the Tweed in 1883 to replace a ford. Its arch rings are of squared sandstone and the spandrels of snecked rubble. The bridge, presumably designed by or for Peeblesshire Road Trustees reputedly has a part paid in its creation by David Kidd, inventor of the modern envelope, whose sisters contributed substantially towards its cost out of their inheritance from him.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
