Wade's Bridge (originally known as Tay Bridge) is five-arch bridge crossing the

River Tay The River Tay (, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing' David Ross, ''Scottish Place-names'', p. 209. Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, 2001.) is the longest river in Sc ...

Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross Aberfeldy () is a burgh in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, on the River Tay. A small market town, Aberfeldy is located in Highland Perthshire. It was mentioned by Robert Burns in the poem ''The Birks of Aberfeldy'' and in the Ed Sheeran song "The H ...

, Scotland. A

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structure built in 1733,''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland''

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(1901) to a design by William Adam, it carries the pedestrian and vehicle traffic of Poplar Avenue.Tay Bridge
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Erected for the

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, to the order of

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George Wade Field Marshal George Wade (1673 – 14 March 1748) was a British Army officer and politician who served in the Nine Years' War, War of the Spanish Succession, Jacobite rising of 1715 and War of the Quadruple Alliance. He went on to be a milit ...

, its original purpose was as a

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linking the garrisons at Ruthven, Fort George,

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and Fort William. The stone was quarried, cut and tooled at nearby Bolfracks. In 1932, two tablets with copies of Wade's original inscriptions were let into the stonework of two obelisk plinths; one in English and one in Latin. These state that the bridge was begun in April 1733 and finished by January; however, this is not strictly true, as General Wade stopped work for the winter, leaving the bridge without parapets over the side arches. These were added the following year.

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''Aberfeldy Conservation Area Appraisal''
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, November 2008 Category A listed buildings in Perth and Kinross Listed buildings in Aberfeldy Listed bridges in Scotland Bridges across the River Tay Bridges in Perth and Kinross Bridges completed in 1733 1733 establishments in Scotland {{UK-bridge-struct-stub

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