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Guardbridge, New Guard Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Guardbridge, New Guard Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) River Eden; Cupar Road
Canmore ID 101396
Site Number NO41NE 44
NGR NO 45189 18858
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/101396
- Council Fife
- Parish Leuchars
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO41NE 44 45189 18858
Location formerly cited as NO 4520 1885 and NO 4508 1885 to NO 4524 1884.
For adjacent (to N) Old Bridge and corresponding railway bridge, see NO41NE 1 and NO41NE 61 respectively.
For associated WW2 road block (NO 4427 1884), see NO41NE 99.
To the S [of the old bridge], bridge of 1935-7 by F A MacDonald and Partners.
J Gifford 1988.
This bridge carries the present line of the Guardbridge-St Andrews (Fife coast) road (the A91(T) public road) across the River Eden to the E of Guardbridge village (NO41NW 71). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Leuchars (to the W) and St Andrews & St Leonards (to the E).
The predecessor Old Bridge (NO41NE 1) is adjacent to the N.
The location assigned to this record indicates the midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NO c. 45189 18858 to NO c. 45243 18847.
This bridge is depicted, but not noted, on the 1982 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 June 2006.
Project (2007)
This project was undertaken to input site information listed in 'Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' by R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Publication Account (2007)
The old bridge (NO41NE 3) was bypassed by the present three-span reinforced concrete bridge of 1935–37 by F. A. MacDonald & Partners but is still much used by pedestrians.
Paxton and Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
Publication Account (2013)
GUARDBRIDGE
New three arched bridge by F A MacDonald & Partners.
M Watson, 2013
