The Dry Arch - Dalcrue, Perth & Kinross.
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N 56° 26.266 W 003° 32.223
30V E 466885 N 6254932
Ornate arched bridge over a minor road in Perthshire that once carried a private road between Lynedoch House and Scone Palace.
Waymark Code: WMWZ80
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/03/2017
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Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, purchased the Lynedoch Estate west of Perth in Scotland, in 1787. He then had a private road built between Lynedoch House and Scone Palace which came into no other contact with public roads. A narrow minor road that ran just to the east of the estate at Dry Arch Wood was crossed by a bridge designed by W H Playfair in 1832.
Lynedoch House no longer stands and the road has all but vanished from the landscape, but the bridge still stands and has been A-listed.
It can be found on the road between the village of Methven and the hamlet of Moneydie to the west of the city of Perth. Two miles north-west of Methven the road crosses the River Almond at Dalcrue and soon after branches left and heads through the wood where the bridge appears. It is a moulded and console, keyblocked semi-circular arch with channelled masonry. It is possible to climb up the steep embankment from the road to reach the top. All is overgrown and no trace of a road now exists that once would have had a horse and carriage crossing this bridge.