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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 882710
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882710
This bridge, completed in 1724, spans the South Esk at a height of 65 ft by means of a single arch of 52 ft span at a point where it flows through a deep gorge cut through the local red sandstone. It was a bold effort for its time, built at the expense of James Wood, a local farmer, who employed a mason to build the arch but constructed the parapet walls himself.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
