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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714368

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714368

NT33NW 30 33327 37141.

Old Bridge, Innerleithen. A quarter of a mile N. of the road bridge in the High Street of Innerleithen another bridge spans the Leithen Water. This was built in 1701, funds being obtained from the minister's stipend, as the parish church had been vacant from October, 1695 to March 1697. The structure consists of a single arch, of rubble masonry. (Sited at NT 3333 3713)

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1951

As described by RCAHM.

Visited by OS (RD) 7 June 1971

(Location cited as NT 333 372). Old bridge, built 1701. Small single-segmented arched rubble bridge with a hump.

J R Hume 1976.

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