Edinburgh Bridges #08 The King’s Bridge

After the summer break it’s back to my somewhat infrequent project to look at Edinburgh’s bridges and today’s effort is a little bit low key. The King’s Bridge that leaps gap from Johnston Terrace (The New West Approach as per this 1836 map) to Spittal St carrying the road over King Stables Road is much ignored, there seems to be little info on this bridge, all I can find out is that it was built 1829-32 by Thomas Hamilton which puts it around the same time as it’s more well known pals The Dean Bridge and The Regent Bridge.
Like a lot of Edinburgh’s bridges when one goes over them you don’t realise it is a bridge and it’s only when you go underneath is it possible to appreciate the size of most of these gaps that are leapt. In the King’s Bridge’s position relatively few people walk underneath it to go from Lothian road to the Grassmarket probably because it is so uninviting for most of the walk..