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Turriff, Deveron Bridge
Road Bridge (19th Century)
Site Name Turriff, Deveron Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) River Deveron; Forglen, Eastside Bridge; Knockiemill; 'new Bridge Over The River Dovern'
Canmore ID 19266
Site Number NJ75SW 20
NGR NJ 71412 50344
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19266
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Turriff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ75SW 20 71412 50344
Deveron Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.
For adjacent tollhouse (to NE) , see NJ75SW 21.
NMRS NOTES
Turriff New Bridge
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office:
New bridge over the River Dovern [Deveron] at Eastside.
Plan and elevation, specification. List of subscribers, letters and minutes of meetings concerning the building of the bridge.
Architect: [-] Minto
1826-56 GD 185/1/31
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NJ 714 503). Bridge and tollhouse, Turriff, built 1826. A handsome 3-span bridge with dressed-stone arch rings and coursed-rubble spandrels and wing walls. The arches are segmental, the centre one being slightly longer than the other two, and there are rounded cutwaters.
J R Hume 1977.
This bridge carries the B9025 public road over the River Deveron to the NW of Turriff (NJ74NW 40). The river here forms the boundary between the parishes of Turriff (to the NE) and Forglen (to the SW).
The location assigned to this record indicates the apparent midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NJ c. 71422 50363 to NJ c. 71390 50307.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 June 2006.
Construction (1826)
Built by William Smith in 1826 to a design by William Minto.
Publication Account (2007)
Eastside Bridge and Toll House, Turriff
A triple-span masonry arch bridge over the Deveron with spans of 40 ft, 59 ft and 40 ft built by William Smith in 1826 to a design by William Minto. The bridge exhibits several design details gathered by Minto whilst acting as
the contractor on Telford’s Potarch, Alford and Keig bridges. The roadway is 18 ft wide between parapets. The tollhouse was designed by William Robertson.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
