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Architecture Notes
Event ID 872388
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/872388
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Integral part of the main route from Edinburgh to Skye after completion in 1818 by the Highland Road Commission. Design and build documentation and provenance is also of great interest: Thomas Telford, Joseph Mitchell and John Davidson, with a unique separate slip to allow cattle to swim across annually. Executed by John Davidson (one of Telford's contractors). The adjoining Glenelg Road (1814-1819) has a a remarkable 90m long and 5.5m high retaining wall at the Glenelg slip approach. The ferry boat with its swivel deck is also rare.
R Paxton, 2009
