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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands

Date 2007

Event ID 962635

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962635

Easter Fearn Bridge

(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 0322)

A single 40 ft span segmental arch bridge passing 50 ft over the Easter Fearn Burn also on the Struie Road, completed by 1817. The rise of the arch is about 15 1/2 ft and its arch-ring consists of thin random sized stones and the spandrels are of coursed rubble stones.

The bridge adjoins a right-angle bend in the road and is remarkable for its tall approach walls of coursed large round rubble stones on a splayed base to provide stability. The engineer was Telford, the inspector, John Mitchell and the contractors D. Mackenzie & Ross.

R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.

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