Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 932215
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/932215
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2539/01)
High Bridge, Spean Bridge
This bridge, now ruinous, carried the military road from Fort William to Fort Augutus and Inverness over the steep sided valley of the Spean. It had three spans of 40 ft, 50 ft and 40 ft, and crossed about 80 ft above river level. The bridge, constructed under General Wade’s direction in 1736–37, was one of the most spectacular military bridges. By 1908 it was becoming ruinous and a light iron truss had been placed across the centre span. The masonry arch collapsed in the 1930s but the piers remain
and the truss is still in place.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
