Garvamore farm, Glen Shero, inverness-shire, by the upper reaches of the River Spey. SCO 9508.
Starting on the A86 in Laggan Village, although Wade's original road was on the south side of the river. Laggan Bridge was first built when Thomas Telford built his new road from Ruthven. Heading west, the road soon passes through this small community and curves around the hill to drop down to the River Spey. Directly across on the opposite bank is Wade's road, now the driveway for Dalchully House before deteriorating into a grassy line through fields. The river bank is followed as far as the Spey Dam Bridge, which necessarily replaced an earlier bridge across the Spey that was lost when the Dam was constructed. Incidentally, the dam holds back water in the Spey which is fed back to the west through a series of channels and pipes to help supply the Aluminium works in Fort William 40 miles away! Once across the bridge, we almost immediately pick up the alignment of Wade's original route, followed soon by the old road from the now gone bridge as it climbs up from the reservoir. The abandoned bridge near Glen Shira Either by luck, or design, the water level is just below Wade's road as we continue west along the shore, briefly climbing over a low hill at Sherrabeg. At the further end of the reservoir, the road is on a raised embankment, lifting it clear of the flood level of the Spey and also carrying it across the new channel that takes the water east towards Fort William. The channel is crossed on a 'new' bridge, similar in style to the Spey Dam Bridge, leaving one of Wade's bridges, across a now long gone stream, stranded in a field. We now pass between Glenshero Lodge and Sherramore at the mouth of Glen Shira and start climbing again, past patches of forestry before dropping back towards the Spey at Garvamore. Not far beyond lies Garva Bridge, one of the very few Wade bridges still carrying a public highway. On the far side of the bridge, the road is gated, and this seems to prompt many people to make use of the large car park before the bridge.
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Location: Garvamore Farm, Glen Shero, Laggan, Inverness-shire. Highland Region. Scotland. UK.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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