Ceannacroc Bridge
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Ceannacroc Bridge | |||
Location Map ( geo) | |||
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The new bridge at Ceannacroc | |||
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Location | |||
Ceannacroc | |||
County | |||
Inverness-shire | |||
Highway Authority | |||
Transport Scotland | |||
Opening Date | |||
1811, 1950, 1989 | |||
Additional Information | |||
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On road(s) | |||
A887 | |||
Crossings related to the A887 | |||
Ceannacroc Bridge carries the two-lane single-carriageway A887 across the River Moriston in Glen Moriston, Inverness-shire. It is a three-span concrete bridge, opened in 1989 as part of major improvements to the route.
Older bridges
The current crossing replaces two earlier structures:
- a bridge built by Thomas Telford in 1808-1811 and which still stands (it has been category-B listed since 1971) at a distance of some 170 m to the north-east; it carried the single-track B852 (later the A887) from 1922 until it was replaced in this role by
- a second bridge built in 1950, little evidence of which now remains apart from the old road line cutting through the trees to the abutments on either bank; located between Telford's bridge and the modern crossing, it appears to have had a concrete deck on masonry piers together with masonry parapets.
Links
- Historic Scotland: listing
- RCAHMS: record for original bridge; record of 1950s bridge (includes photo)
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