Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 609938
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/609938
This bridge, for its time, is a cast-iron segmental arch structure of 65 ft span and 7 ft rise erected across the
Devon near its confluence with the Forth, probably between 1825 and 1840. Local opinion favours the earlier
date and that the bridge was cast and erected by the Carron Company. Its 12 ft wide timber deck is supported
on four ribs thought to be of local design. Each rib is composed of five elements – three 2 ft deep members buttjointed on transverse diaphragms at third points and two tapered members at the ends on top of the arch-rings.
The bridge, which originally carried horse-drawn traffic, was conserved ca.1975 under the direction of Ronald
Noble, consulting engineer, Alloa, as part of a riverside walkway project.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
