Bridge House

Bridge House is an office building in Dundee City, Scotland. Bridge House is situated nearby to Tay Road Bridge Approach, as well as near the historic site Telford Beacon.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include RRS Discovery and North Carr Lightship.

RRS Discovery

RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland, for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. RRS Discovery is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Bridge House.

North Carr Lightship

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North Carr is the last remaining Scottish lightship. She is 101 feet in length, 25 feet in beam and 268 tons. The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels sailing between the Forth and the Tay. North Carr Lightship is situated 520 feet northeast of Bridge House.

V&A Dundee

Museum

Photo: Andrew Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.

V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. V&A Dundee is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Bridge House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dundee and Dundee city centre.

Dundee

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Dundee is an industrial city and port, historically part of Angus county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.

Dundee city centre

Suburb

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Until the Industrial Revolution, the current City Centre represented the full extent of the City of Dundee, Scotland. Now roughly encircled by the A991 dual carriageway, the city centre is now the main shopping and commercial district.