Drumlanrig Estate, Creel Bridge
Footbridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Drumlanrig Estate, Creel Bridge
Classification Footbridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Creel Footbridge; River Nith; Drumlanrig Park
Canmore ID 232541
Site Number NS80SE 83
NGR NS 85565 00540
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/232541
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Durisdeer
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NS80SE 83 85565 00540
Creel Bridge
F B [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1983.
For Drumlanrig Castle (NX 85190 99214), policies and associated buildings, see NX89NE 1.00.
Creel Bridge of c. 1840: a narrow lenticular footbridge carried on pairs of slender cast-iron columns.
J Gifford 1996.
Creel Bridge: footbridge suspended from slender iron columns.
J R Hume 2000.
This bridge carries an estate footpath over the River Nith 400m ENE of Drumlanrig Park.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 March 2006.
Publication Account (2007)
This slender 3 ft wide estate footbridge, now ruinous, spans the Nith about 25 ft above the water. It is one of
very few surviving structures of this genre developed by Robert Stevenson and others from the 1820s. The main span is about 42 ft and the side span 24 ft. The iron deck stringer beams originally derived support
from 34 in. diameter tension rods beneath, anchored to the approach stringers but, as these rods have become
detached from their deck spacers, the stringer beams now solely support the deck. The bridge is almost certainly that shown on the 1856 Ordnance Survey map and may date from the 1830s. The iron stringers and supports may have originally been timber. The bridge is now unsafe and closed.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
