Bridgend is a residential area of Perth, Scotland, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) east of the city centre, on the eastern banks of the River Tay. It is in Kinnoull parish.[1][2] A settlement has existed here since at least the 16th century.[3]

Bridgend
A 2007 view from Bridgend's East Bridge Street to West Bridge Street, which traverses Perth Bridge. Gowrie Street is to the left; Main Street to the right. Perth Museum and Art Gallery is in view at the Perth end of the bridge
Bridgend Location within Perth and Kinross
Council area	Perth and Kinross
Lieutenancy area	Perth and Kinross
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PERTH
Postcode district	PH2
Dialling code	01738
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Perth and North Perthshire
Scottish Parliament	Perth
List of places UK Scotland 56.4001°N 3.4224°W / 56.4001; -3.4224

The main access roads to Bridgend from the centre of Perth are West Bridge Street (the A85, which crosses Perth Bridge) and South Street (which crosses Queen's Bridge).

Due to its location at the bottom of a hill rising to the east, the junction of Main Street and Gowrie Street (known as Bridgend Cross) has become prone to flooding.[4][5] Torrential rains in July 2011 damaged homes and business after rivers of water flowed down Lochie Brae and Bowerswell Road.[5] After a similar occurrence in September 2015, discussions began about installing flood defences.[5]

Listed buildings

The following buildings in Bridgend are listed structures:

• 1 West Bridge Street (former tollbooth, later J. S. Lees Fish & Poultry Shop)[6]
• Main Street, numbers 1–5[7]
• Main Street, numbers 2–16[8]
• Main Street, 7, 9, 11[9]
• Inchbank, 26 Main Street[10]
• Earnoch, Main Street[11]
• Newlands, Main Street[12]
• Inveraven, Main Street[13]
• Riversdale, Main Street[14]
• Springbank, Main Street (divided into three flats)[15]
• Ardchoille Lodge, Strathmore Street (formerly Rosemount, later Perth and Kinross District Police)[16]
• 1, 3 Commercial Street[17]

Amenities

The Bridgend Inn, a Tennent's pub, is located at 69 Main Street,[18] while the Strathmore Bar is at 43 Main Street.[19] The latter was the Strathmore Hotel around the turn of the 20th century and was advertised as having livery stables. Its proprietors in 1907 were Watt and Ramsay.[20]

Bridgend was without its own post office for over a decade, until one opened on West Bridge Street in March 2020.[21]

Notable people

• James Croll, scientist (1821–1890), worked for Bridgend coffee merchant David Irons[22]
• James Forbes, botanist (1773–1861)
• John Murray Robertson, architect (1844–1901), died at Crossmount in Bridgend
• George Seton, philanthropist (1822–1908)[23]

Gallery

• 
  Perth Bridge as it was before being widened in 1869
• 
  A circa-1903 view. Many of the buildings here are now gone; see following modern image
• 
  Flats and maisonettes on Commercial Street in Bridgend, looking southeast from Perth Bridge
• 
  Strathmore Hotel, Main Street, 1893
• 
  Bridgend Inn, pictured in 2007
• 
  Gannochy Road, leading up the hill from Bridgend

References

External links

• "Kinnoull Conservation Area Appraisal" – Perth and Kinross Council, includes a townscape analysis of Bridgend
• Bridgend – Scottish-Places.info
• Footage from 1936 of Bridgend from the Perth side of Smeaton's Bridge – "The Town of the Tay – Perth", British Pathé, YouTube, 13 April 2014