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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 1007
Event ID 934475
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/934475
Braemore and Inverbroom Estate Structures, Wester Ross
(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 1556)
Sir John Fowler, whose major works included London’s Metropolitan Railway and the Forth Bridge, purchased in 1865 and 1867, respectively, estates totalling 40 000 acres at Braemore and Inverbroom, near Ullapool, which he enjoyed for over three decades, his last visit being in October 1897. During this period he applied his engineering skills to developing the estate for the enjoyment of his family and distinguished guests. His improvements, apart from planting nine million trees and maximising
agricultural development, included a 1000-yard-long stone wall near the summit of Beinn Dearg, 3547 ft AOD (NH 2600 8120), said to have been built not so much to keep stags from falling over a dangerous precipice as to provide work for the local unemployed people.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission
