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Drip Bridge

Ferry (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Drip Bridge

Classification Ferry (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Ferry Of Drip; River Forth

Canmore ID 46019

Site Number NS79NE 4

NGR NS 770 956

NGR Description NS c. 770 956

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Stirling
  • Parish Kincardine (Stirling)
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Stirling
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NS79NE 4 c. 770 956

For successor bridges, see NS79NE 58 (Old Bridge) and NS79NE 75 (New Bridge).

There is a ferry-boat on the Forth, called the 'ferry of Drip', at the east end of the parish, about a mile from Stirling (Angus Graham, 1724).

W Macfarlane 1906

No further information.

Visited by OS (RD) 19 September 1968.

This ferry crossed the River Forth, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Kincardine (Stirling) to the W and St Ninians (to the E).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 1997.

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