Smeaton's Bridge River Tay Perth Perthshire Scotland



Tour Scotland 4K travel video of Smeaton's Bridge which spans the River Tay on visit to Perth, Perthshire. John Smeaton, architect of the Eddystone Lighthouse, was commissioned to build a new bridge at Perth. Smeaton's bridge was completed in 1771 and is generally known as Perth Bridge or by locals simply the Old Bridge. The River Tay, Scottish Gaelic: Tatha, is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay originates in western Scotland on the slopes of Ben Lui, Scottish Gaelic: Beinn Laoigh, then flows easterly across the Highlands, through Loch Dochart, Loch Iubhair and Loch Tay, then continues east through Strathtay in the centre of Scotland, then southeasterly through Perth, where it becomes tidal, to its mouth at the Firth of Tay, south of Dundee. The surname Smeaton was first found in Midlothian at Smytheton, now named Smeaton or in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, at either Great Smeaton, Kirk Smeaton or Little Smeaton.

William Smeaton arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship Lysander in 1839; George Smeaton, a Scottish settler travelled from Glasgow aboard the ship Storm Cloud arriving in Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 30th July 1861; Robert Smeaton, aged 24, arrived in Wellington, New Zealand aboard the ship Forfarshire in 1873; Edward Smeaton landed in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, America, in 1849; William Smeaton arrived in Arkansas, America, in 1892.

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