Old Bridge On History Visit To River Forth Stirling Scotland

Tour Scotland short travel clip, with Scottish music, of the old bridge over the River Forth on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Stirling. From this Scottish bridge you can see Stirling Castle on top of a hill above Stirling. The present Stirling Old Bridge was built in the 1400s or 1500s, replacing a succession of timber bridges. The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth. The bridge also played a part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, when an arch was removed to forestall Bonnie Prince Charlie’s forces as they marched south. The bridge today remains one of the best medieval masonry arch bridges in Scotland. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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