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Lanarkshire -- Hamilton Parish

Bothwell Bridge (continued) - Army, amounting to about 4000 men, occupied the opposite bank, belong to the Duke of Hamilton. The centre of the Bridge, which was then long & narrow, having a portal in the middle, with gates, had been barricaded by the Covenanters, & was the chief scene of the engagement" New Statistical Account.



Written across columns 4 & 5 - The old Bridge may be seen from beneath the arches, the number of which (four) is, as noted in Statl. [Statistical] Account. All the authorities remember the old Bridge before it was widened. One, Dr. Bar of Silvertonhill, remembers the Portal standing, but most persons, of any time in the country, consider that the Portal was destroyed before the time of any one now living. The old part of the Bridge is on the west side. There are numerous stone buttresses to the walls forming the sides of the Road which crosses the Bridge. The old side of the Bridge, the [--] has Iron Stanchions on each buttress of the arches. A tree in "Barmichael Wood" cut down, sometime ago, was found to be perforated with bullets, supposed to have been fired from the Royalists.