Wolfclyde Bridge

Wolfclyde Bridge
Lanarkshire
Location
Carrying:	A72
Crossing:	River Clyde
Location
Grid reference:	NT01903618
Location:	55°36’34"N, 3°33’32"W
Structure
History
Information

Wolfclyde Bridge carries the A72 across the River Clyde a mile or so west of Biggar in Lanarkshire, carrying the road over the Clyde on two wide, shallow arches.

This is an unusual structure. Originally it was an early 19th century stone bridge, which remains. This was then widened in the 1950s, in concrete, giving the current shape, which is about three times the original width. The structure the continues for some distance on the west bank over a stone causeway: the first section of this causeway provides four small flood arches, then after a section of grassy embankment are two further masonry flood arches, with the grass embankment continuing some distance beyond these.

The facings of the structure are generally of coursed rubble stone, with neater parapets and ashlar arch rings. These is no real embellishment beyond this. All of the piers are protected by triangular cutwaters, although the various abutments are square-cut. The arch rings on the flood arches are in squared rubble, and long diagonal walls separate the masonry sections of the embankment from the grassy slopes.

Immediately downstream of the bridge is the point where the railway used to cross the Clyde on a low-level viaduct named the Wolfclyde Viaduct. The viaduct has gone, but its piers still stride across the fields and into the river, now bering nothing.

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References

• The Wolfclyde Bridge on SABRE

Bridges and crossings on the River Clyde
Clyde Bridge	Float Viaduct	Thankerton Bridge	Wolfclyde Bridge	Hardington Mains Ford	Lamington Bridge	Lamington Viaduct