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Drip Bridge, Old Bridge

Road Bridge (18th Century)

Site Name Drip Bridge, Old Bridge

Classification Road Bridge (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) River Forth

Canmore ID 46040

Site Number NS79NE 58

NGR NS 77016 95615

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Stirling
  • Parish St Ninians
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Stirling
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Archaeology Notes

NS79NE 58 77010 95615

For (successor and present) Drip Bridge (adjacent to N), see NS79NE 75.

For (associated) Toll House (at W end), see NS79NE 23.

Built by public subscription, perhaps before 1745. Five arches, 206' long.

SDD List

(Location cited as NS 770 956). Old Drip Bridge, early 18th century. A handsome 5-span rubble bridge, with segmental arches increasing in size to the centre. There are triangular cutwaters extended up to form semi-hexagonal pedestrian refuges.

J R Hume 1976.

This bridge carries the former line of the A84 (T) public road over 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.

(Former Index no. 2797). Descheduled.

Information from Historic Scotland, Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 17 December 2010.

Old Bridge [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, January 2011.

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