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Latitude: 55.8455 / 55°50'43"N
Longitude: -3.0698 / 3°4'11"W
OS Eastings: 333111
OS Northings: 661882
OS Grid: NT331618
Mapcode National: GBR 700V.6D
Mapcode Global: WH6T7.TBDM
Plus Code: 9C7RRWWJ+53
Entry Name: Bridge, Arniston Policies
Listing Name: Arniston Policies, Rustic Bridge over Gore Water
Listing Date: 5 May 1999
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393306
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46124
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Arniston Policies, Bridge
ID on this website: 200393306
Location: Cockpen
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Midlothian South
Parish: Cockpen
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Bridge Driveway bridge
Early 19th century. Single span, segmental-arched bridge over Gore Water. Tooled sandstone rubble with droved dressings. Rubble coping and arch-ring. Splayed wing walls; parapet missing in places.
In addition to designing Arniston House (see separate listing, Borthwick Parish) William Adam was taken on in 1726, under Robert Dundas, 3rd Lord Arniston (1685-1753), to layout the grounds. Adam's arrangement (which seems to have been carried out to the south) mixed the formal with the informal. From the 1750's there was long period of improvement, principally involving the informalising of the grounds. John Adam, who continued with work on the house and grounds where his father had stopped, was responsible for some of the changes, as was Thomas White who began work at Arniston in 1791. A variety of small moss-covered rustic bridges cross the Purvies Hill Burn (to the S of Arniston House), a tributary to the River South Esk (which runs to the W of Arniston) the bridges over which are larger and less rustic. This particular bridge, which is the northernmost on the Arniston Estate and the only estate bridge over Gore Water, is similarly relatively simple.
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