Stirling New Bridge

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