•     Introduction
•     Berwick-upon-Tweed    to Coldstream
  •     Mouth of the Tweed
  •     Berwick Bridge
  •     Royal Tweed Bridge
  •     Royal Border Bridge
  •     Berwick A1 Bridge
  •     Union Bridge, Horncliffe
  •     Ladykirk and Norham Bridge
  •     Coldstream Bridge
•     Coldstream to   Leaderfoot
  •     Hunter's Bridge Kelso
  •     Kelso Bridge
  •     Mertoun House Footbridge
  •     Mertoun Bridge
  •     Dryburgh Footbridge
  •     Drygrange Bridge, Leaderfoot
  •     Drygrange Old Bridge, Leaderfoot
  •     Leaderfoot Viaduct
•     Leaderfoot to   Walkerburn
  •     Gattonside Suspension Bridge
  •     Melrose Bridge
  •     Redbridge Viaduct, Tweedbank
  •     Galafoot Bridge, Galashiels
  •     New A7 Tweed Bridge
  •     Tweed Bridge, Sunderland Hall
  •     Yair Bridge
  •     Low Peel Bridge
  •     Walkerburn Bridge
•     Walkerburn to   Peebles
  •     Innerleithen Railway Bridge
  •     Tweed Bridge, Innerleithen
  •      Cardrona Bridge
  •     Cardrona Railway Bridge
  •     Kailzie Bridge
  •     Priorsford Footbridge, Peebles
  •     Tweed Bridge, Peebles
  •     Fotheringham Footbridge, Peebles
  •     Neidpath Viaduct
•     Peebles to Patervan
  •     Manor Bridge
  •     Lyne Footbridge
  •     Stobo Bridge
  •     Dawyck Mill Bridge
  •     Crownhead Bridge
  •     Merlindale Bridge, Drumelzier
  •     Easter Stanhope Bridge
  •     Patervan Bridge
•     Patervan to Tweed   Source
  •     Polmood Bridge
  •     Hearthstane Bridge
  •     Glenrusco Pipe Bridge
  •     Carlow's Bridge, Tweedsmuir
  •     Hawkshaw Bridge
  •     Grange Hill Bridge
  •     Fingland Bridge
  •     Tweedshaws Bridge
  •     Tweed Source
•     Former Bridges and   Fords
•     Reference
•     Links
•     Bridges On The Tyne
•     Bridges on the   Derwent
•     Bridges on the Tees
•     Bridges on the   Coquet
•     Bridges on the   Wansbeck
•     Bridges on the Blyth
•     Bridges on the Aln
•     Bridges on the Wear

WALKERBURN BRIDGE

"Nothing but a farmhouse and steading until 1855 when Henry Ballantyne of Galashiels founded the Tweedvale Mill for the production of woollen cloth. Tweedholm Mill established by Robert Frier, also from Galashiels, followed in 1859, together with housing for the mill workers, and the village soon became a thriving, self-contained industrial community, one of the last to be created in Scotland."

The Buildings Of Scotland. Borders. Kitty Cruft, John Dunbar and Richard Fawcett. 2006.

A footbridge was built here in 1867 to link the village with the railway station and was replaced by the present road bridge. It carries the Caberston road over the Tweed from Walkerburn village. A ford (Bold Ford) existed here before the bridge was built, otherwise road vehicles had to cross the Tweed at Innerleithen. Prior to the footbridge a ferry existed for a year for railway passengers to cross.

The present bridge was built by Orr Watt and Co. The village has hills to north and south, the Tweed flowing west to east in a narrow valley. There are woods on the south bank.

 Walkerburn Bridge