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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 930926
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/930926
Ness Bridge, Inverness
Just upstream of Greig Street Bridge (NH64NE 118) is the site of the town’s historic seven-arch masonry Ness Bridge, built from 1685–89, with a prison vault 12 ft square in the spandrel between the 2nd and 3rd arch at the east end in which a prisoner in 1715 is said to have been eaten by rats. This bridge was swept away in a flood on 25 January 1849, mainly caused by the bursting of the Caledonian Canal bank, and replaced by a 225 ft-span suspension bridge with bar-link chains designed by J. M. Rendel and built from 1852–55, with ironwork supplied and erected by William Armstrong.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
