Sites and Monument Record: Dunipace Bridge (SMR 413)
Description
This three-span segmental arch bridge was built in 1825 under the direction of James Walker junior, Falkirk, surveyor to the Road Trustees of the Eastern District of Stirlingshire. Prior to that date there had been an important ford a little further downstream.
On the W side of the bridge a decayed inscription
reads: "Erected/A.D.1825/ By the Trustees of the
Peathill and Redrow Road./ James Walker, Falkirk,
Engineer." On the E side the inscription reads:"Built /by/Thomas Gray, Mason,/Lesmahagow And/Christopher Cairns/Road Contractor,/Stirling, 1825." The bridge is 104 feet long, the span of the middle arch being 32 ft, and that of each side arch 28 ft. The approaches re ramped. A toll-house was located to the S.
3 arches c18th. Dressed sandstone.
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