Three-mile single-track causeway with three bridges linking Benbecula, Grimsay and North Uist, opened in 1960
The North Ford Causeway carries the A865 across the North Ford between Gramsdale on Benbecula and Carinish on North Uist, by way of the western tip of Grimsay and several smaller islands. At about three miles it is the longest of the causeways linking the islands, a single-track road with passing places and three bridges that let boats and the tide through.
It was opened on 7 September 1960 by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Before then travellers crossed the tidal ford on foot or by cart, or used a ferry that ran only at high tide.
Photo Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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