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Road Bridge (19th Century) (1886)

Site Name Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct

Classification Road Bridge (19th Century) (1886)

Alternative Name(s) Denburn Road; Lower Denburn Valley

Canmore ID 20116

Site Number NJ90NW 207

NGR NJ 93815 06327

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct
View from Denburn Road, from S

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Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct View from Denburn Road, from S

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Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

26/10/1974

© Copyright: HES (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume)

Oblique aerial view.

DP 265591

Oblique aerial view.

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Historic Environment Scotland

12/9/2017

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

DP 265592

Oblique aerial view.

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Historic Environment Scotland

12/9/2017

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Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the ENE, showing the Marischal College in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

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Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the ENE, showing the Marischal College in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/6/1996

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Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct.
General view from South.

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Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct. General view from South.

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9/10/1991

© RCAHMS

View of Denburn Viaduct showing rail and road arches, taken from the south.

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View of Denburn Viaduct showing rail and road arches, taken from the south.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

9/5/2012

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View of viaduct arch leading through to depot, taken from the south.

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View of viaduct arch leading through to depot, taken from the south.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

9/5/2012

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Detail of Denburn viaduct pier.

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Detail of Denburn viaduct pier.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

9/5/2012

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Detail of underside of Denburn viaduct.

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Detail of underside of Denburn viaduct.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

9/5/2012

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View of Denburn viaduct looking along railway to tunnel entrance, taken from the south.

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View of Denburn viaduct looking along railway to tunnel entrance, taken from the south.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

9/5/2012

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Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on Denburn Viaduct.

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Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on Denburn Viaduct.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/6/1996

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Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the Rosemount area.

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Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the Rosemount area.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/6/1996

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Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct, NJ90NW 207, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct, NJ90NW 207, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct
View from Denburn Road, from S

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view.

Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the ENE, showing the Marischal College in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct.
General view from South.

View of Denburn Viaduct showing rail and road arches, taken from the south.

View of viaduct arch leading through to depot, taken from the south.

Detail of Denburn viaduct pier.

Detail of underside of Denburn viaduct.

View of Denburn viaduct looking along railway to tunnel entrance, taken from the south.

Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on Denburn Viaduct.

Aberdeen City Centre, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, centred on the Rosemount area.

Aberdeen, Denburn Viaduct, NJ90NW 207, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Council Aberdeen, City Of
Parish Aberdeen
Former Region Grampian
Former District City Of Aberdeen
Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ90NW 207 93815 06327

For Rosemount Viaduct (NJ 9341 0646 to 9370 0632), see also NJ90NW 211.

Denburn Viaduct [NAT]

OS 1:1250 map, 1968.

(Location cited as NJ 938 063). The latest of an unusual series of bridges built to open up new areas of the city for development. Built 1886, together with the Rosemount viaduct (NJ90NW 211), by engineer William Boulton; has three segmental skew arches, the central one spanning a railway cutting.

J R Hume 1977.

This viaduct carries the main roads of Rosemount Viaduct and Schoolhill over the Denburn Valley railway line which formerly formed part of the main Aberdeen-Inverness line of the Great North of Scotland Rly.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 September 1999.

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