Stirling New Bridge
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| Stirling New Bridge | |
| Stirlingshire | |
|---|---|
 Stirling New Bridge | |
| Location | |
| Carrying: | A9 road |
| Crossing: | River Forth |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NS79749447 |
| Location: | 56°7’40"N, 3°56’11"W |
| Structure | |
| No. of spans: | 5 |
| History | |
| Built 1831 | |
| Architect: | Robert Stevenson |
| Information | |
The New Bridge is the sole operational road bridge over the River Forth into Stirling. It was built in 1831 to relieve the Old Stirling Bridge, a stone bridge which was for three hundred years the lowest bridge on the Forth and the last of a series of bridges crossing the river at the same point.
The New Bridge is of stone, overleaping the Forth on five arches. It now carries the A5 road, in two lanes of traffic.
The bridge is the work of Robert Stevenson, the famed engineer. He built it considerably wider than the old bridge, and with a level roadway, not the pronounced humpback over which carriages had struggled on the old bridge and its predecessor since the Middle Ages.
Outside links
- The Stirling Bridges on SABRE
References
| Bridges and crossings on the River Forth | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M9 Forth Bridge | Old Mills Farm Footbridge | Old Stirling Bridge | Stirling New Bridge | Caledonian Railway Bridge | North British Railway Bridge | Cambuskenneth Bridge |