Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,709 pages of information and 247,104 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Pease Bridge

From Graces Guide
2018

Carries the A1107 over Pease Dean, a deep gully south east of the village of Cockburnspath, N.W. of Eyemouth, Berwickshire.

The A1107 was formerly the main Edinburgh to Berwick-on-Tweed turnpike, now bypassed by the A1.

Built 1783-1786. Four tall semicircular arches, varying in span from 42 ft to 56 ft. 300ft (91.5m) long, 16ft (4.9m) wide and 120ft (36.5m) high. The parapet is surmounted by iron railings. 9 ft diameter openings in the spandrels. The spandrels and parapets were extensively rebuilt in 2004.

David Henderson was the mason/architect.

For more information, photographs and maps see CANMORE entry.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  • 'Civil Engineering Heritage - Scotland Lowlands and Borders' by Roland Paxton and Jim Shipway, RCAHMS/ICE/Thomas Telford, 2007