Forestry Bridge at Polbae
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Forestry Bridge at Polbae
Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg Taken: 19 Jul 2013
The maps show this crossing as a ford but recent and forthcoming timber operations needed something to take heavy vehicles. There is a project on the Dargoal Burn to help conserve stocks of Atlantic Salmon in Scotland, which would have been undermined by continued use of a ford.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.020157
Longitude
-4.68508