Kessock Bridge

Kessock Bridge

The Kessock Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge across the Beauly Firth, an inlet of the Moray Firth, between the village of North Kessock and the city of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Construction began on the bridge in 1976 and the bridge was completed and opened in 1982.

The bridge has a total length of 1,056 metres with a main span of 240m and is based upon the design of the bridge across the Rhine in Düsseldorf. The Beauly Firth is a navigable waterway and hence the bridge is raised high over sea level. The four bridge towers dominate the Inverness skyline, especially at night when they are lit.

The bridge carries the A9 trunk road north from Inverness to the Black Isle. It is the southernmost of the "Three Firths" crossings (Beauly, Cromarty and Dornoch) which has transformed road transport in the Highlands. It has proved a key factor in the growth of the city of Inverness.

External links

* [http://neil.fraser.name/writing/bridges/kessock.html Bridges of Inverness: Kessock Bridge]


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