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until the gates were opened to their maximum to relieve the level of Loch Awe and the Awe Barrage from overflowing. Two of the three arches of the old bridge were washed away, with one arch on the Taynuilt bank remaining, in part due to the deflection of the main flow by the small island upstream.
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was constructed on the north side of Taynuilt. The furnace was of such strategic importance that in 1756 a military road was built to reach it, crossing the Pass of Brander and the Bridge of Awe. Despite flooding during construction, which swept away the partially built bridge, it was completed in
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The course of the river has changed greatly since the 1992 floods. The island upstream now joins to the land on the Taynuilt bank in summer months when the river is low.
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A reinforced concrete bridge was built in 1938 as a replacement for the old bridge. This is still in use today, carrying the
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The original bridge was destroyed in January 1992 following heavy floods. High winds had damaged the roof of the
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The original bridge featured in the 1959 film 'The Bridal Path' starring George Cole and Gordon Jackson.
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1779. It was twenty years before the road was extended westward to
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Scottish Gaelic
arch bridge
Taynuilt
Argyll
Scotland
Bonawe Iron Furnace
Connel
Oban
A85 road
Oban
Dalmally
River Awe
Inverawe Power Station
Loch Awe


"Taynuilt"
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56°25′12″N 5°11′41″W / 56.42000°N 5.19472°W / 56.42000; -5.19472
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