📌 Tolsta, Isle of Lewis
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This concrete arched bridge north of Tolsta was part of an ambitious plan by landowner and industrialist Lord Leverhulme to build a road up Lewis’s east coast to Ness. But you’ll probably have guessed the twist from the name of this page: the road was never finished, and the bridge now seems curiously over-engineered for a structure which leads to nothing more than a minor track (which does eventually lead to Ness as a boggy moorland path). There’s ample parking a few hundred metres away at Garry Beach; from here you should continue by self-propelled means, since the approach to the bridge itself isn’t a public road.
🌍 Location
📌 Public minor road end, 1 mi north of New Tolsta, Isle of Lewis
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NB 531502
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 58.370253,-6.223565
🚌 Bus to north end of New Tolsta (1 mi)
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
