Galafoot Bridge

Galafoot Bridge
Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire
Location
Carrying:	A6091 road
Crossing:	River Tweed
Location
Grid reference:	NT50983468
Location:	55°36’12"N, 2°46’47"W
Structure
Design:	Beam
Material:	Concrete
Piers:	2
History
Information

The Galafoot Bridge is a modern road bridge, a ribbon of concrete built in 1975, which crosses the River Tweed in Galashiels, between Selkirkshire on the western bank and Roxburghshire on the eastern, just above where the Gala Water joins the Tweed. (The county border here runs down the Gala Water to the Tweed and then up the Tweed.)

The bridge carries the A6091 road from Galashiels to Melrose, on two piers high above the water.

Sir Walter Scott’s grand house, Abbotsford, stands just a little above the bridge on the Roxburghshire bank. Beside the bridge is a ford across the Tweed, after which Abbotsford was named, and the ford can be used to join two long-distance footpaths; the Borders Abbeys Way on the eastern bank and the Southern Upland Way on the western, though they also join on the footpath along the side of the Redbridge Viaduct, a railway bridge a little downstream.

References

• Galafoot Bridge: Bridges on the Tyne