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Civil Engineering heritage: Highland and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 610372
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/610372
This bridge provided access to Oakfield House then belonging to Lochgilphead landowner John MacNeill. It is a swing bridge, pivoted on the west bank, and bears the inscription ‘P. & W. MACLELLAN, Clutha Works, 1877’. It replaced an earlier bridge, possibly one of Gibb’s iron bridges of 1817, and spans 35 ft from the pivot to the far bank and is 11 ft wide.
The timber deck is carried on hogbacked iron plategirders with a maximum depth of 16 in. The manually operated swing mechanism is worked from the west bank, which allowed MacNeill to isolate his house if he so wished.
R Paxton and Jim Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
