Drochaid Balbh Bhordain Bridge, Ruthven is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 April 1978.
Drochaid Balbh Bhordain Bridge, Ruthven
- WRENN ID
- far-courtyard-pigeon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1978
- OS grid reference
- NN 725 961
- Coordinates
- 57.03902, -4.10176
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Drochaid Balbh Bhordain Bridge, located near Ruthven, dates to around 1730 and was constructed during the time of General Wade's military road building program. It is a small, single-span humpback bridge built of rubble stone, with a dressed arch ring. There is no parapet present. The bridge carries the old military road connecting Etteridge and Ruthven Barracks, and crosses the Allt na Feithe Moire burn. William Taylor's 1976 publication, The Military Roads in Scotland, provides further details on page 63. The bridge lies within the Cairngorms National Park.
Local climate
Drochaid Balbh Bhordain Bridge, Ruthven sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 83 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 66 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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