Rumbling Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rumbling Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) River Devon
Canmore ID 219214
Site Number NT09NW 46
NGR NT 01656 99486
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/219214
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Muckhart (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Note: this is not Rumbling Bridge, Little Dunkeld parish, NN94SE 7 which is a single bridge over the River Braan.
NT09NW 46 01656 99486
Rumbling Bridge crosses the River Devon between the parishes of Muckhart and Fossoway.
Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), August 2002.
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)
This bridge, about ten miles north-east of Alloa on the Dunfermline via Glen Devon to Crieff road over the Ochils
from Powmill, improved under the direction of road engineer Charles Abercrombie, was erected in 1815–16. It
carries the road more than 100 ft above the Devon on an arch of about 30 ft span and is of particular interest in
being built on top of and in having preserved a squared stone masonry bridge. This earlier bridge, built in 1713 by William Gray of Saline, is 12 ft wide of 22 ft span and 86 ft above the river.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
