Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705334

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/705334

NS75SW 13.00 73510 54768

(NS 7351 5475) Avon Bridge (NAT)

OS 1:10000 map (1978).

NS75SW 13.01 NS 73528 54718 Tollhouse (50 Carlisle Road).

For (predecessor) Old Avon Bridge (NS 73322 54637), see NS75SW 9.

Location formerly entered as NS 7351 5475 to NS 7353 5471, and as centred NS 73510 54768.

(Location cited as NS 735 547). Avon Bridge and Tollhouse, built 1820, engineer Thomas Telford. A single segmental arch of dressed stone construction. The tollhouse is pleasing a one- storey and basement ashlar structure, with a bow front, recently tile-roofed.

J R Hume 1976

This bridge carries Carlisle Road across the River Avon to the SE of Hamilton (NS75NW 44).

The location assigned to this record defines the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NS c. 73498 54782 to NS c. 73516 54758.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 May 2006.