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Inverbervie, New Bervie Bridge
Road Bridge (20th Century)
Site Name Inverbervie, New Bervie Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bervie Water; Inverbervie, New Bridge; Bervie Jubilee Bridge
Canmore ID 122207
Site Number NO87SW 67
NGR NO 83207 72858
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/122207
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Bervie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO87SW 67 83207 72858
Location formerly cited as NO 8319 7290
For (original) Bervie Bridge, see NO87SW 22.
For (adjacent and predecessor) Old Bridge, see NO87SW 52.
Bervie Jubilee Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1973.
Built on a curve, Bervie Jubilee Bridge is a fine reinforced concete viaduct taking the main road (A92) from Montrose to Stonehaven over the Bervie Burn on seven spans. The bridge was completed in 1935 and by-passed an earlier single-arched masonry bridge (NO87SW 52) built in 1799, which still survives adjacent to the north abutment.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NO 832 729). New Bridge, built c. 1933. A large reinforced-concrete bridge with one long span and seven approach spans on one side, and one on the other.
J R Hume 1977.
During October 2000 Bervie Jubilee Bridge was visited and surveyed by a RCAHMS photographic team. The purpose of this survey was to enhance and augment the existing holdings of the National Monuments Record Scotland.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), August 2000.
Built on a curve, Bervie Jubilee Bridge is a fine re-inforced concete viaduct taking the main road (A92) from Montrose to Stonehaven over the Bervie Burn on seven spans. The bridge was completed in 1935 and by-passed an earlier single-arched masonry bridge built in 1799, which still survives adjacent to the north abutment.
Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 2000.
Jubilee Bridge, 1935. For George V's jubilee, on a stunning curve, seven spans of reinforced concrete, each bay topped by a cast-iron lamp standard.
J Geddes 2001.
This bridge carries the A92 (T) public road across the Bervie Water to the N of Inverbervie (NO87SW 45); the river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Arbuthnott (to the N) and Bervie (to the S). The parish of Kinneff and Catterline may impinge on it from the E.
The location assigned to this record defines the apparent midpoint of this curving structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NO c. 83168 72940 to NO c. 83203 72812.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 May 2006.
Built on a curve, Bervie Jubilee Bridge is a fine re-inforced concete viaduct taking the main road (A92) from Montrose to Stonehaven over the Bervie Burn on seven spans. The bridge was completed in 1935 and by-passed an earlier single-arched masonry bridge built in 1799, which still survives adjacent to the north abutment.
Information from RCAHMS
(MKO) 2000
Publication Account (2013)
The first flax spinning mill in Scotland, using Kendrew and Porthouse’ patent, started here in 1787. There are several small water-powered mills and their warehouses dot the haugh, the valley below the town New Bervie, off Cowoff Cowgate, NO 8323 7283, NO87SW 68 1887; Pitcarry, by 1820, Upper, 1826 (NO 82368 73418, NO87SW 50), and Lint Mill 1832 (below Jubilee bridge), followed by three small steam powered mills up in the town: Laurel Mill (Church Street, 1877), Spring Works / Klondike Mill (warehouses off High Street, 1885, now a bus garage), Craigview Mill (High Street, 1907; closed 1992, replaced by a housing development.
There were three steam powered flax mills in nearby towns: Johnshaven, (1896, M13), Selbie in Gourdon (1908, closed 1997, demolished) and Invercarron, Stonehaven (1914, demolished). Selbie Works was the second last flax/ jute mill in Scotland, and its ability to switch from one material to another made it regarded as a barometer of the industry. These mills were able to operate as part of the Dundee industry thanks to the rail connection. Also see M12.
Inverbervie Old Bridge (NO 83143 7290) was built in 1797-9 by James Burn, 102ft (31.1m) span and 80ft (24.4m) high with vaulted embankments, chambers in the abutments reputedly a prison. It was bypassed by the curved new reinforced concrete 7-span Jubilee Bridge in 1935-6. At one end is a scale replica of the Cutty Sark figurehead. Hercules Linton, her designer, was born here.
M Watson, 2013
