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Latitude: 56.8953 / 56°53'43"N
Longitude: -4.9559 / 4°57'21"W
OS Eastings: 220059
OS Northings: 782108
OS Grid: NN200821
Mapcode National: GBR GB4H.GP5
Mapcode Global: WH2GK.VY7C
Plus Code: 9C8QV2WV+4M
Entry Name: General Wade's High Bridge, Spean Bridge
Listing Name: By Spean Bridge, High Bridge over River Spean
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338554
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6841
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Spean Bridge, General Wade's High Bridge
ID on this website: 200338554
Location: Kilmonivaig
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Caol and Mallaig
Parish: Kilmonivaig
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Bridge
General Wade, 1737. High 3 arched rubble bridge; segmental headed dressed rubble arch rings; triangular cutwaters rising as stepped buttresses at each end abutments. Smaller east bank arch survives; section remains of cast-iron footbridge placed over missing spans, now also collapsed. Fragments of pulvinated string course survive.
High Bridge superseded by Thomas Telford's Spean Bridge further up stream. Said to have been (and still is?) inscribed "In the ninth year of His Majesty King George II this bridge was erected under the care of Lt General Wade, Commander in Chief of all Forces in North Britain, 1736."
In poor condition and difficult to examine owing both to condition and over-grown vegetation.
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