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Bridge Of Potarch
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bridge Of Potarch
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Potarch Bridge ; River Dee; Kincardine O’ Neil
Canmore ID 120081
Site Number NO69NW 14
NGR NO 60759 97312
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120081
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kincardine O'neil
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO69SW 14 60759 97312
Bridge of Potarch [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1981.
ARCHITECT: Thomas Telford, 1803-21.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NO 608 973 and name as Potarch Bridge). Built 1811-13 by engineer Thomas Telford. A handsome 3-span bridge with dressed-stone arch rings and piers, and coursed-rubble spandrels. There are triangular cutwaters extended up to form semihexagonal pedestrian refuges.
J R Hume 1977.
This bridge carries the A93 public road (formerly the Military Road LIN 516) across the River Dee which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Birse (to the S) and Kincardine O'Neil (to the N).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 August 1997.
Construction (1811 - 1814)
Built.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Publication Account (2007)
Potarch Bridge, Kincardine o’ Neil
This bridge, on the line of the old military road from Edinburgh via Cairn o’ Mount to Fochabers and later to Fort George, carries the B993 over the Dee. It was the second bridge to be constructed in Aberdeenshire for the
Highland Roads Commission and is built of coursed granite masonry without decorative features except for the string course at road level. It is an outstanding example of its type. The bridge, designed by Telford, has
three segmental arch spans of 65 ft, 70 ft and, 65 ft and is 17 ft wide between parapets.
Construction began in 1811 and the contractor, William Minto, agreed to complete the bridge within two years. During building, while the arch-rings were supported on centring, logs being floated downriver lodged against the temporary works and caused the collapse of the partially
completed work. The bridge was completed in 1814 for £4067. Minto also improved 1312 miles of road from just north of the bridge to Alford Bridge.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
Construction
Similar to contemporaries at Alford (NJ51NE 64) and Logie (Ferness Bridge) NH94NE 6.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
