Crumbling Bridge Uprights on Murieston Water
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Crumbling Bridge Uprights on Murieston Water
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 30 Mar 2021
Not exactly sure when this bridge came down, but it must have been relatively recently. Richard Webb has a picture of the same ruined bridge uploaded here from 2007, and also mentions it is still shown as present on a 1980s map. It is also, rather strangely, still present on the initial map that appears alongside this grid-square on this site! It was around a while - it is first shown on an 1853 OS map. A track used to head South from the South Lodge of Calder House to the bridge. The track then split, but both branches don't seem to end up anywhere in particular on the old maps. South Lodge is still standing and now sits at the entrance to South Lodge Avenue, a fairly upmarket residential street in Mid Calder.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.88084
Longitude
-3.488174