Footbridge, Gosford House

This is an early 19th-century stone footbridge, one of two identical structures spanning a man-made water course. The bridge is constructed from random rubble stone with an ashlar parapet. It features a small, narrow arch flanked by drum piers, topped with cast-iron railings and decorative urn and arrow-head finials along the parapet. The footbridge crosses a network of drains that feed ornamental lakes. Landscape designer J.C. Loudon attributes the landscape design to Ramsay (as for Wemyss House), referencing his ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GARDENING p1251. It is part of a group of structures associated with the wider Gosford Estate. The bridge is documented in a J. Ainslie survey of the pleasure grounds from 1808, and also appears on an Ordnance Survey map of Haddingtonshire from 1854.