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PRIOR TO THE YEAR 1800
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Prior to 1800, there were just four bridges on the Dee:-
- Bridge of Dee at Aberdeen, 1527
- Invercauld Old Bridge, c. 1752
- Bridge of Ballater, 1783
- Bridge of Banchory, 1799
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PRESENT DAY
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Starting at the mouth of the Dee and moving upstream:-
- Victoria Bridge, Aberdeen, 1881
- built following the sinking of the Torry Ferry, with the loss of 32 lives, on 5 April 1876
- Elizabeth II bridge, 1984
- Wellington Suspension Bridge, Aberdeen, 1830
- Railway Bridge, Aberdeen, 1850
- George VI bridge, 1941
- opened by the late Queen Mother
- Bridge of Dee, 1527, rebuilt 1718-23, widened 1842
- (Abutments of vanished [foot?]bridge exist downsteam of St. Devenick’s Church)
- Morison's Footbridge, Cults, 1837
- officially St. Devenick’s Bridge,
- ruined, although plans for re-use are under consideration
- Maryculter Bridge, 1895, 1972
- Park Bridge, 1854
- Durris Bridge (Crathes), 1862, 1977
- Banchory Bridge, 1799, 1829, c. 1975, 1985
- the timber centre span of the first bridge was destroyed by the Muckle Spate
- the iron replacement lasted till the 1970’s and was replaced by a Bailey bridge
- the present concrete bridge was built in 1985
- Potarch Bridge, 1814
- Aboyne Bridge 1828, c.1830, 1871, 1930
- Dinnet Bridge, 1862, 1935
- Cambus O'May Footbridge, 1905, (shortened post-1966]
- Royal Bridge, Ballater 1783-1789, 1809-1829, 1834-1885, 1885
- Polhollick Footbridge, 1892
- Abergeldie (private) Footbridge, 1885
- Crathie Suspension Bridge, 1834
- Balmoral Bridge, 1859.
- Danzig Shiel (now Garrawalt Shiel) Wooden Bridge (private, out of use)
- Invercauld Old Bridge (now private), c. 1752
- Invercauld Bridge, 1859.
- Victoria (private) Bridge, Mar Lodge (1848), 1905.
- Bridge at Linn of Dee (c. 1830), 1857
- White Bridge, Glen Dee (1881), 1908
- (Another bridge crossed the Dee, near the site of White Bridge, from about 1860)
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