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Latitude: 55.5552 / 55°33'18"N
Longitude: -3.6326 / 3°37'57"W
OS Eastings: 297110
OS Northings: 630270
OS Grid: NS971302
Mapcode National: GBR 3426.BF
Mapcode Global: WH5T6.5MFN
Plus Code: 9C7RH948+3X
Entry Name: Lamington Bridge
Listing Name: Lamington Bridge
Listing Date: 17 December 2010
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 400552
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51662
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200400552
Location: Lamington and Wandel
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Parish: Lamington And Wandel
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Bridge Road bridge
1835-6. Wide double span bridge, each shallow arch spanning 53 feet with central pier and cutwater with additional rounded cutwaters to river banks. Splayed parapets. Red sandstone rubble, banded string course, broad ashlar coped parapet.
A fine and early example of a wide bridge spanning the river in two elegant shallow arches with central cutwater and protective starlings. Built to link the Old Edinburgh Road onto the Stirling road, it now lies on the B7055.
The bridge may have been built by Noble Builders of Skirling, the red sandstone used was from the Robertoun quarry at a total build cost of £900.
The bridge was commissioned following a river spate in 1830 when a number of people were killed trying to cross the river; there were previously no safe crossing points between the Clyde and Wolfside Bridges, a distance of nine miles.
The local authority rebuilt the parapet walls in 1980 at which time the original oval cartouche date stone was not reinstated. Many of the tops stones were recut at this stage.
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