Inverness, Black Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inverness, Black Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Merkinch Bridge; The Maggot; River Ness; Waterloo Bridge
Canmore ID 101342
Site Number NH64NE 767
NGR NH 66250 45940
NGR Description NH c. 6625 4594
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/101342
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 767 c. 6625 4594
Formerly entered in error as NH64SE 164.
For successor and present Waterloo Bridge, see NH64NE 131.
Merkinch Bridge
REFERENCE: Scottish Record Office
Bridge over the River Ness. Letter from Thomas Telford to the Provost of Inverness states that the importance of the bridge requires it to be made a more permanent structure. 23/6/589/7
Replaced by the Waterloo Bridge.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Publication Account (2007)
The current 1896 bridge which connects Waterloo Place with Grant Street replaced a timber bridge with 13 spans of about 30 ft erected in 1807–08 and known as Black Bridge [see illustration page 150].
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
