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All eight arches are semicircular, skewed and constructed with helical courses, crossing the Tweed obliquely with four of the piers in the water, and the whole structure is built on a graceful curve of radius 440 yards (400 m) so as to align the route with nearby Neidpath Tunnel, at the eastern end of the viaduct and to the south of Neidpath ...
The viaduct behind the amphitheatre at the Roman site of Trimontium. The viaduct stands 126 feet (38 m) from the floor of the river valley. [2] The arches, each of 43 feet (13 m) span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic-faced red sandstone.
Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Peebles in the Borders of Scotland. The castle is both a wedding venue and filming location and can be viewed by appointment.
Google's (GOOG) navigation tool has returned to the iPhone, months after Apple's (AAPL) home-grown mapping service flopped, prompting user complaints, the firing of an executive and a public ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The viaduct, which is constructed on a gentle curve, was a conventional masonry structure. [2] It consists of 28 arches, 15 of which being over land to the south of the River Tweed and 13 over the river itself; these were set out in two groups separated by a stop pier. [ 3 ]
In 2005, a study by the New Economics Foundation ranked Peebles as the best town in Scotland (second best in the UK, after Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire) for a range of independent shops and 'home town identity'. [20] The local health facility is Hay Lodge Hospital in Neidpath Road. [21]
The bridge was widened from 8 feet (2.4 m) to 21 feet (6.4 m) in 1834 by adding stonework to both sides. [5] [6] This work was done by John and Thomas Smith of Darnick, and the cost of around £1,000 was funded by public subscription. [5] Between 1897 and 1900, it was widened again to 40 feet (12 m) by adding to the downstream side. [5]