Pitfour

The North Bridge on the Pitfour Estate - the largest of three bridges on the estate carries the carriage drive to the house over the end of the 50 acre artificial lake. The lake was dug out in the early 19th century by workmen using shovels. The Square Grecian design on the panels on the bridge is echoed on other structures on the estate which was known as the Blenheim of the north. The expenditure involved in these grandiose constructions - in the style of Capability Brown bankrupted the owners, the Ferguson family who had derived much of their fortune from sugar plantations in Trinidad and Tobago..