Craigmin Bridge

This slightly menacing but immensely fascinating structure - Craigmin Bridge - crosses the deep, wooded gorge formed by the Burn of Letterfourie.

The double-decker bridge carried the main carriage drive to Letterfourie House across the burn. It consists of a lower single arched span, thought to be the original structure, which supports two semicircular arches carrying the drive straight across the ravine.

The bridge is thought to have been designed by Robert Adam and to date from C. 1773 It was probably constructed in this unusual manner because carriages attempting to use the lower bridge could not negotiate the steep banks of the burn.

It is still possible to walk along the lower level, passing through a narrow passage between the two upper arches. There is a persitant local story that Bonnie Prince Charlie hid here after Culloden. The bridge is three decades too young for this to be the case.