Kessock Bridge

Beauly Firth; Longman Point; Craigton Point

Kessock Bridge

Kessock Bridge

Kessock Bridge

Kessock Bridge

Kessock Bridge

Year built :

1982

Designer/builder :

Crouch and Hogg, Arup and Ptnrs

Length :

1056 m

Current use :

road A9

Over :

Moray Firth

Type :

Cable stay bridge

Material :

concrete

Grid Reference.:

NH 6645 4767

Comments :

This is the only cable stay bridge in Britain. It had to withstand winds of up to 99 mph, a tide race of 8 mph in water 13 yards deep, and even possible seismic tremors since Inverness is on a fault line spasmodically active. It was built to a German design (Helmut Homberg) and cost more than £ 33 million. The Rhine-Bridge Rees-Kalkar near Duesseldorf was the model. [1, 2]