Hoddom Bridge

About Hoddom Bridge

Hoddom Bridge is a three-span masonry arch bridge over the Annan on the B725. It is located about three miles west of Ecclefechan, at the gates of Hoddom Castle Caravan Park. The bridge was built in 1762 by Alexander Lawrie, a stonemason from Newton Stewart.

The Welsh name for the settlement is unrecorded but the nearby name of Ecclefechan derives from Eccles meaning a “church” and bachan meaning “little”. In other words there was a little church beside the old Roman highway to the...