Currie Bridge
Road Bridge (19th Century)
Site Name Currie Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (19th Century)
Canmore ID 50273
Site Number NT16NE 17
NGR NT 1828 6773
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50273
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Currie
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT16NE 17 1828 6773.
(NT 1828 6773) Currie Bridge (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
Currie Bridge is a very old bridge of single span, narrow on the top. It is said to have stood upwards of 500 years.
Name Book 1852; NSA 1845 (T Barclay)
Only the post-1896 bridge remains, but the site is known to be pre-1666.
Information from J Howdle, Curriehill Rd, Currie, 1969.
REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE:
'Buildings of Currie District'. Collection of notes made by Robert Balfour Graham Langwill (died 1932). He refers to: Bavelaw, Currie Bridge, Currie Kirk, Hermiston, Malleny and Riccarton.
No date. GD 1/509/10
Collection of notes made by Robert Balfour Graham Langwill (d.1932). He comments upon: Crucifix or Altar Candlestick found in Currie churchyard:Heraldic slabs at Malleny House and those taken from Corstorphine Church in 1828 and built into the extension to Hermiston House, home of John Burn, architect.
No date. GD 1/509/11
Comments are made upon the nuns:
Curriehill Castle,
Lennox Castle,
Mansion of the Skenes of Curriehill.
Also not on secret passsages.
