Little Garve Bridge, Garve – Ross & Cromarty

In the wake of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, General George Wade oversaw the building of a massive road infrastructure to support the movement of the British Army in the Highlands for the purpose of maintaining suppression of the population. A network of over 250 miles of interconnecting roads and 40 bridges were built, predominantly determined by the location of forts and army barracks. There are areas of the road and some bridges still in use today and referred to these days as the ‘Old Military Road’.

Now a scheduled monument, Little Garve Bridge spans a deep chasm of the Black Water River and had been part of the military road between Contin & Poolewe on the West Coast. Although known as Wade’s Bridge, it was in fact commissioned by his successor, Major William Caulfield.