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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 797863
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/797863
ND35SE 60 36234 50882
Not to be confused with Wick Harbour Bridge (ND 3650 509, for which see ND35SE 69.
Bridge of Wick [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1972.
Architect Thomas Telford 1803-1821. Rebuilt 1877, copy of original bridge, Murdoch Paterson - engineer.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as ND 363 509). Wick Bridge, built 1877. A masonry bridge with three segmental arches, replacing an earlier Telford bridge of similar design.
J R Hume 1977.
Wick Bridge (ND 362 509) was built in 1877 by Murdoch Paterson with contractor Daniel Miller of Wick, retaining the size and outline of Telford's earlier bridge, and on the site of a bridge of 1665.
G Nelson 1990.
Bridge of Wick. Three segmental ashlar arches, by Murdoch Paterson, 1875-7.
J Gifford 1992.
This bridge carries the A9 public road (here known as Bridge Street) across the River Wick (Wick River) between Wick (to the N) and Pultneytown (to the S), within the town of Wick (ND35SE 81).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 December 2000.
