Spean Bridge
Spean Bridge is a village in the parish of Kilmonivaig, in Lochaber in the Highland region of Scotland. The village takes its name from the Highbridge over the River Spean on General Wade's military road between Fort William and Fort Augustus, and not from Thomas Telford's bridge of 1819 which carries the A82 over the river at the heart of the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Spean Bridge railway station and Commando Memorial.
Spean Bridge railway station
Railway station
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Spean Bridge railway station is a railway station serving the village of Spean Bridge in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, between Roy Bridge and Fort William, sited 90 miles 56 chains from Craigendoran Junction, near Helensburgh.
Commando Memorial
Memorial
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The Commando Memorial is a Category A listed monument in Lochaber, Scotland, dedicated to the men of the original British Commando Forces raised during World War II.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inverroy and Roybridge.
Inverroy
Village
Inverroy is a scattered village situated 2 miles east of Spean Bridge in Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Inverroy is situated 2 miles east of Spean Bridge.
Roybridge
Village
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roybridge is a small village, that lies at the confluence of the rivers River Roy and River Spean, located three miles east of Spean Bridge, in Kilmonivaig Parish, Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Highland administrative area. Roybridge is situated 3 miles east of Spean Bridge.
Gairlochy
Hamlet
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Gairlochy is a clachan, or hamlet, of population approx. 100. It lies on the southern shores of Loch Lochy, a large freshwater loch in the district of Lochaber in the North West Highlands of Scotland. Gairlochy is situated 3 miles northwest of Spean Bridge.
Spean Bridge
- Type: Village with 550 residents
- Description: village in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.89206° or 56° 53′ 31″ northLongitude
-4.92156° or 4° 55′ 18″ westPopulation
550Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ZSBOpen location code
9C8QV3RH+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 27034859OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Spean Bridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Spean Bridge”
- Cebuano: “Spean Bridge”
- Chinese: “斯皮恩布里奇”
- Dutch: “Spean Bridge”
- French: “Spean Bridge”
- German: “Spean Bridge”
- Irish: “Drochaid Aonachain”
- Japanese: “スピーン・ブリッジ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spean Bridge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spean Bridge”
- Norwegian: “Spean Bridge”
- Russian: “Спин Бридж”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Drochaid an Aonachain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Drochaid Aonachain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Spean Bridge”
- Spanish: “Spean Bridge”
- Swedish: “Spean Bridge”
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