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Latitude: 57.3175 / 57°19'2"N
Longitude: -3.5959 / 3°35'45"W
OS Eastings: 303977
OS Northings: 826337
OS Grid: NJ039263
Mapcode National: GBR K9HC.TS2
Mapcode Global: WH5JP.QBVQ
Plus Code: 9C9R8C83+XJ
Entry Name: Old Spey Bridge
Listing Name: (Old) Spey Bridge over River Spey
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330555
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB335
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Spey Bridge
ID on this website: 200330555
Location: Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Badenoch and Strathspey
Parish: Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Bridge
Dated 1754. 3 span mixed pinned rubble granite of ascending
height from N to S banks, with tooled mixed granite arch
rings of increasing height and span in same direction. Canted
buttresses rise from triangular cutwaters and terminate as
refuges; tooled ashlar parapet; shallow end buttresses;
splayed approaches.
Metal repair stays.
Approximate spans; 25' - 45' - 80'.
Datestone at S side of bridge inscribed "AD1754. 5 companeis
of the 33rd Regement Colonel Charles Hay. Ended". Part
of the military road from Corgarff (Braemar) to Fort George.
Now by-passed and closed to vehicular traffic. Smallest
(flood) arch repaired after great flood of 1829. River Spey
forms boundary with Abernethy and Kincardine Parish.
Descheduled in 1992.
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