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Coldstream Bridge, linking
Coldstream,
Scottish Borders with
Cornhill-on-Tweed,
Northumberland, is an
18th century Grade II* listed bridge between
England and
Scotland, across the
River Tweed. A
plaque on the bridge commemorates the
1787 visit of the
poet Robert Burns to the Coldstream. Of historical note is the
toll house on the Scottish side of the bridge, which became infamous for the runaway
marriages that took place there. It ceased to be a
toll bridge in
1826.
The
architect for the bridge was the famed
John Smeaton (responsible for the third
Eddystone Lighthouse), working for the
Tweed Bridges Trust. Construction lasted from
1763 to
1767, when it opened. It is a
road bridge, the
arches having equal length. It currently carries the
A698 across the Tweed.
The cost of the bridge was
£6,000, with government grants available for the project and the shortfall covered by a mixture of local subscription and loans from
Edinburgh's banks, which were to be paid back by the tolling system. There was controversy when the project's
engineer,
Robert Reid, used some of the funds to build accommodation for himself, but the trustees were assuaged when Smeaton argued that the house would actually help support the bridge. It seems that Smeaton was sympathetic to Reid, believing him to be underpaid for his work.
The bridge underwent subsequent work, including the
1784 construction of a downstream
weir as an anti-
erosion measure,
concrete reinforcement of the
foundations in
1922 and significant work in the early
1960s to strengthen the bridge and widen the road.
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