Archaeology Notes

Event ID 717247

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/717247

NT37SW 81 34223 72642

For (predecessor) Old Bridge (NT 34076 72537), see NT37SW 5.00.

New Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.

New Bridge [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, April 2006.

NMRS REFERENCE

Architect: Sir John Rennie, 1806-7 (5 elliptic arches) (main road, Edinburgh to Berwick)

Newcutting (including Old Bridge), missing at time of upgrade, 30 September 2003

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Records Office

RHP 8796 John Rennie 1803 - plans, elevations & sections (photocopy).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

The New Bridge over the Esk was designed in 1806 by John Rennie, with five arches and niched piers over rounded cutwaters. It was greatly widened in 1924 by Blyth & Blyth, without altering its appearance from either side.

C McWilliam 1978.

This bridge carries the former line of the A1(T) public road (now the A199) over the River Esk within the area of the town of Musselburgh (NT37SW 409), between Bridge Street (to the W) and High Street (to the E).

The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure, which apparently extends from NT c. 34195 72675 to NT c. 34248 72612.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 April 2006.