Latitude: 55.8074 / 55°48'26"N
Longitude: -2.3256 / 2°19'31"W
OS Eastings: 379692
OS Northings: 657176
OS Grid: NT796571
Mapcode National: GBR D169.B1
Mapcode Global: WH8X2.79V9
Plus Code: 9C7VRM4F+XQ
Entry Name: Nel Logan's Bridge
Listing Name: Nel Logan's Bridge
Listing Date: 16 August 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330409
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB214
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200330409
Location: Bunkle and Preston
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Parish: Bunkle And Preston
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Bridge
Dated 1793 (?). Single arched bridge spanning Preston Burn, later enclosed on both sides to form cell beneath; small, segmental-arched opening for burn below. Harl-pointed sandstone rubble to bridge with tooled rubble dressings; weathered cream sandstone rubble to later infills. Rubble voussoir arches to both sides with central keystones (dated to N); rubble-coped parapets, splayed at either end. S ELEVATION: blocked, round-arched opening at centre with plain keystone; small, pointed-arched opening centred in cell below; segmental-arched opening beneath; arched door (?) opening off-set to left. N ELEVATION: blocked, round-arched opening at centre with keystone dated '1793'; small arrowslit centred in cell below; segmental-arched opening beneath. INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
An unusual and relatively early survival. At one time, the enclosure formed beneath this bridge was used as a jail - hence its sometimes being known as 'Cuddy's Gaol' ('cuddy' presumably deriving from the fact that the bridge was used primarily by horses and ox-wagons). A small hole in the floor of the cell is said to have allowed inmates to pull up water and deposit waste into the burn below. Nel Logan, a Preston woman imprisoned for stealing a sheep, was the last to be held here - hence its name today. Obscured by foliage in part (1998).
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