Monument record MHG49250 - Evanton Bridge

NMRS Report: (28/12/2005)
NH66NW 58 60590 65896

Evanton Bridge [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1990.

For corresponding railway bridge over the River Sgitheach, see NH66NW 59.

For successor and present road bridge over the River Sgitheach, see NH66NW 60.

For corresponding road bridge (over the Allt Graad) at the N end of the village, see NH66NW 62.

This short bridge carries Balconie Street over the River Sgitheach at the SW end of Evanton village (NH66NW 38). Balconie Street forms the former line of the A9(T) public road.
The location assigned to this record defines the centre of the span.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 December 2005. <1>

Information from ARCH Pathways into the Past Evanton:

The bridge was replaced with the present one in 1972-3. During road improvements in the 1960s and 1970s, 45 gallon drums of explosives were found buried adjacent to the A9 at both Evanton Bridge and the Drummond Railway Bridge. They were taken to the beach at Kiltearn Bay and blown up by bomb disposal teams.

Information from Alpin Macdonald, Eddie Szymborski and Alan Kinghorn <2>