Archaeology Notes

Event ID 740884

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/740884

NT84NE 50 89006 47292

For associated tollhouse (Lower Toll Cottage, adjacent to W), see NT84NE 52.

Ladykirk & Norham Bridge [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1980.

The B listed bridge over the Tweed between Ladykirk, Scotland and Norham, England is visible on large scale vertical air photographs, (OS 71/050/032, flown 1971).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NT 890 473). Ladykirk-Norham Bridge, and tollhouse, built 1885-7, engineers Codrington and Brereton. A 4-span bridge, with dressed-stone arch rings, coursed-rubble spandrels and wing walls. The central pier has a rounded cutwater carried up to form a pedestrian refuge; the other piers have triangular cutwaters. The arches are segmental.

J R Hume 1976.

Ladykirk & Norham Bridge & Tollhouse, 1885-7, Thomas Codrington & Cuthbert Brereton, engineers. Four broad arches, red sandstone rock-faced with ashlar dressings, apsidal central cutwater with similar projection in parapet, outer cutwaters triangular and broached. Built for the Tweed Bridges Trust.

C A Strang 1994.

This bridge carries an unclassified public road over the River Tweed to the S of Ladykirk village (NT84NE 48). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Ladykirk, Scotland (to the W) and Norham, England (to the E).

The location assigned to this record defines the point at which the span crosses the main channel of the river, and thus the national boundary. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NT c. 88964 47289 to NT c. 89130 47271.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 February 2006.