Inverness, Waterloo Bridge
Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inverness, Waterloo Bridge
Classification Road Bridge (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Grant Street; Waterloo Place; River Ness
Canmore ID 13348
Site Number NH64NE 131
NGR NH 66256 45928
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13348
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64NE 131 66256 45928
Waterloo Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1971.
Location formerly entered as NH 6625 4592, and also as NH 6621 4596 to NH 6629 4588.
For (predecessor) Black or Merkinch Bridge (NH c. 6625 4594), see NH64NE 767.
(Location cited as NH 663 459). Waterloo Bridge. Built 1895-6 by engineers John A Mackenzie and Murdoch Patterson. A five-span road bridge with steel-trusses supported by cast-iron piers, built by local Rose Street Foundry.
J R Hume 1977.
This bridge carries Grant Street across the River Ness to the S of the Ness Viaduct (NH64NE 130).
The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NH c. 66217 45965 to NH c. 66300 45887.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 March 2006.
Publication Account (2007)
Waterloo Bridge, Inverness
A five equal-span double Warren truss iron road bridge supported on cast-iron columns dating from 1896. It connects Waterloo Place with Grant Street and had replaced a timber bridge with 13 spans of about 30 ft
erected in 1807–08 and known as Black Bridge [see illustration page 150]. The engineer of Waterloo Bridge was John A. Mackenzie, the consulting engineer was Murdoch Paterson and the contractors, Rose Street Foundry, Inverness.
The bridge stood firm in the severe floods of 1989 which reached nearly to deck level and caused the collapse of nearby Ness Viaduct.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
