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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 801091

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/801091

NO75NW 55.00 70992 57226

Suspension Bridge [NAT]

OS (GIS) ep. 3.

NO75NW 55.01 Cancelled

Location formerly entered as centred NO 70985 57220.

For successor (concrete) New Bridge (formerly entered as NO75NW 55.01), see NO75NW 547.

For corresponding railway viaduct (adjacent to W), see NO75NW 39.

NMRS REFERENCE

Architect: Alexander Stevenson & Son. Begun 1794 finished 1796

Montrose Suspension Bridge was demolished c. 1927.

Information from NMRS Demolitions catalogue.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Records Office

Proposed bridge over the River North Esk.

Site for a new bridge surveyed by John Baxter and John Adam, architects.

Letter to James Ross, the Duke of Gorden's Factor, from John Baxter adds this information.

1769 GD/44/sec 43/Bundle 14

Building an Iron Suspension Bridge over the South Esk.

Letter from Colin Alison to Lord Melville.

It concerns his objections to the Bill for replacing the present wooden bridge over the River South Esk with an iron suspension bridge.

1825 GD/51/5/609/1-2

Financing the building of a bridge over the South Esk.

Letter from James Chalmers to Henry Dundas.

He seeks a subcription towards the cost.

1788 GD/51/5/551

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Edinburgh Central Library, Edinburgh Room - Scots Magazine February 1811 - 1 engraving.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

This bridge formerly carried the A92 public road over the River South Esk between Montrose and Ferryden, and at the entrance to Montrose Basin. The entirety of its structure fell within the parish of Montrose.

This available map (GIS) evidence indicates a location at NO 70992 57226 for the midpoint of this structure. It apparently extended from NO c. 71031 57312 to NO c. 70954 57140.

Records in the SRO (cited above) indicate the presence of a predecessor timber bridge.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 April 2006.

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