Bruar Falls, just a few miles north of Blair Atholl, are found on a pleasant, fairly hilly, walk from the House of Bruar car park. There are two bridges across Bruar water allowing visitors access to both sides of the gorge. The bridge pictured here mirrors the natural rock "bridge" below it. Robert Burns visited the falls in 1787 and addressed a poem to the Duke of Atholl pleading for "tow'ring trees and bonie spreading bushes" in the bare gorges. Shortly after, the 4th Duke, Planter John, began the planting of what would become 15 million trees on 10,000 acres of the Atholl estates. Today we enjoy the legacy in Perthshire, Big tree Country.
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The village of Struan, just north of Bruar, has this remarkable double structure. The road bridge over the River Garry was built in the late 18th Century when access to the Highlands was being opened to facilitate "pacification" following Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1745 rebellion. Around 100 years later, the railway engineers building what became the Highland Line erected this stone viaduct over Glen Garry almost nonchalantly bestriding the older bridge!