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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929693
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929693
Bridge of Alvah
This bridge, constructed in 1772 for the Earl of Fife, stands on a spectacular site, south of Banff, where the Deveron forces its way through a rocky gorge 27 ft wide. Although of modest span, the crown of its arch is 55 ft above river level. The bridge, with a large chamber in the west abutment and asymmetric form, has similarities to earlier military bridges. It now carries a local access road.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
