Union Canal, Gogar Moor Bridge
Road Bridge (19th Century)
Site Name Union Canal, Gogar Moor Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Union Canal Bridge No 14
Canmore ID 50687
Site Number NT17SE 41
NGR NT 15650 70469
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50687
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Ratho
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT17SE 41 NT 15650 70469.
[This bridge carries an unclassified road over the Union Canal (built 1818-22, designer Hugh Baird) over the Union Canal, some 200m N of Brampton Lodge. [See NT97NW 61.02 for a description of a typical bridge.]
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This hump-back bridge carries a road over the canal which splits at a blind junction just to the SW of the bridge.
H Brown 1997.
This bridge, labelled as Gogar Moor Bridge, is marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1853, sheet 5), on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989) and on the OS 1:10000 raster map (ND).
Information from RCAHMS (MD) 8 February 2001.
