Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland,UK, Down the hill from the Auld Kirk and almost opposite the lower entrance to the Burns Monument garden is the late medieval bridge across the River Doon, immortalised by Burns as the Brig O' Doon. Built sometime around 1460. It has a span of 72 feet, large for a 15th-century single-arch bridge, and a rise of 26 earliest contemporary record of the bridge dates to 1512, and it was apparently ruinous by 1593. In the poem Tam O' Shanter, Tam flees for his life across the bridge, pursued by pursued by witches.

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Location: Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
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