Archaeology Notes

Event ID 693224

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO76SW 39 72513 62217

Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.

Location formerly entered as NO 72503 62247.

For mill lead (NO 710 628), see NO76SW 49.

For (adjacent to W) Lower North Water (road) Bridge, see NO76SW 38.

(Location cited as NO 724 622). North Water Viaduct, Fisherhills. Opened 1865 by the Montrose and Bervie Rly. An 11-span masonry viaduct with five slightly-skewed arches over the river and six smaller land arches; all are semicircular.

J R Hume 1977.

The (North British Rly.) branch from Montrose to Inverbervie was originally promoted as part of a coastal through route to Aberdeen and opened to passenger traffic on 1 November 1865. This was its major engineering work and carried the track over the North Water of Esk at a height of about 75 ft (22.9m).The line closed to traffic on 23 May 1966, but the viaduct remains standing. The river piers were repaired in 1992-3.

M Smith 1994.

This viaduct formerly carried the Bervie branch railway over the River North Esk, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of St Cyrus (Kincardineshire) and Montrose (Angus), to the N and S respectively.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 June 1997.

This bridge carries the A92 public road over the River North Esk, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Montrose (Angus and Tayside Region) and St Cyrus (Kincardineshire and Grampian Region), to the S and N respectively.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 April 1998.

Opened in 1865 by the Montrose and Bervie Railway, this rubble-built viaduct comprises eleven semi-circular arches which carried the track over the River North Esk to the north of Montrose. The railway was closed in 1966, but at the time of survey in 2002, the viaduct had been refurbished and re-opened as a footpath.

Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 2002.

The location assigned to this record defines the apparent midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NO c. 72491 62310 to NO c. 72527 62135.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 April 2006.