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River Eachaig

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pier to Loch Eck as part of the "new route to Inveraray", and at this time the ferry was replaced by a wooden bridge. This in time needed replaced, and around the end of 1884 the Trustees of the Dunoon District of Roads, Argyllshire, arranged for engineers and contractors to construct a new malleable
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7th series one-inch map published in 1960, in following decades the A815 main road was realigned with a curve crossing the river on a new bridge to the north of the old bridge, and the A880 side road from Kilmun extended to join this as a side road. The old bridge is still in place, and is a
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went this way in 1563. A small boat or punt called a coite carried passengers over the river, and the thatched house of the ferryman became known as the Cot House, eventually the Cot House Inn.
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iron girder bridge spanning 70 feet (21 m) over the river; this bridge was completed in May 1885. It is a single-span
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The Eachaig Bridge built in 1885 across the River Eachaig at the Cot House Inn, Kilmun.
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involved travelling down Loch Eck, then crossing the River Eachaig to get to
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joins the River Eachaig immediately before it empties into the Holy Loch.
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as a rare example of an unaltered wrought iron bridge.
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Index


Benmore Botanic Garden
Loch Eck
Cowal
56°02′20″N 4°59′05″W / 56.038795°N 4.9847063°W / 56.038795; -4.9847063
Mouth
Holy Loch
55°59′54″N 4°57′06″W / 55.998381°N 4.9517269°W / 55.998381; -4.9517269
Little Eachaig River
River Massan
Inverchapel Burn
Cowal Peninsula
Argyll and Bute
Loch Eck
Holy Loch
Benmore Botanic Garden
Rashfield
Cot House
Inverchapel Burn
River Massan
Little Eachaig River
Inveraray
Firth of Clyde
Dunoon
Mary Queen of Scots
David Napier
Kilmun
wrought iron
lattice truss bridge

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