Kessock Bridge

The Kessock Bridge is a road bridge in Scotland. It spans the Beauly Firth between Inverness and North Kessock.

Since the 15th century wrong at this point a ferry across the bay and made ​​the connection between Inverness in the south and the Black Isle peninsula in the north. The construction of the Kessock Bridge was started in 1976. As an architect, served the German Civil Hellmut Homberg, the nachempfand the bridge of the Rhine bridge Rees- Kalkar. The 1052 m long cable-stayed bridge was completed in 1982. Each will take you two lanes in each direction of travel. Your main span is 240 m. Homberg work was honored with an award. On the Kessock Bridge runs with the A9 most important trunk road in the Highlands. The expended by the Bank of Scotland in 2007 a ​​new series of Scottish pound notes, on the backs of important buildings are shown in Scotland. The 100 - £ note here shows the image of the Kessock Bridge.