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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 ...
Goyt Viaduct a.k.a. Strines Viaduct: Strines, Stockport: 1865: Stone arch and girder: II: Spans the River Goyt: Great Musgrave Bridge: Great Musgrave, Cumbria: 1862: Infilled with 1500 tons of concrete in July 2021 by National Highways [4] Gree Viaduct: North-East Ayrshire, Scotland: on the former Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. Demolished ...
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.
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Peebles has three primary schools: Kingsland (now relocated to Neidpath Road from its original position on Rosetta Road), Priorsford, and the Roman Catholic Halyrude Primary School (now relocated from Elcho Street to the former Kingsland primary school building on Rosetta road [19]).
Records show that a stone bridge has been maintained at the site since the middle of the 15th century, and work done in 1465 may have been the construction of a new bridge or substantial rebuilding or maintenance of an existing one. [2] [1] [3] A mason known as John of Peebles may have worked on the bridge at that time. [1]
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]