Overview
Robert Adam designed it in 1774 for an estate owner who needed to connect his land to the city and wanted the crossing to look like a Palladian street. It worked: cross it without looking over the parapet and you would not know you were on a bridge at all. The weir below is a twentieth-century flood control measure, so the picture everyone takes is two hundred years of unrelated decisions that happen to agree.
Highlights
The view is from Grand Parade on the far bank, or from the river level below Parade Gardens. Walk across for the shops, which are small and mostly independent. Boat trips leave from beneath it and are the easy way to see the Georgian city from the water.