page_title: Old military roads of Scotland
section_title: Roads in northeast Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: Old military roads of Scotland / Caulfeild’s Roads / Roads in northeast Scotland
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridge of Dye, beside the B974
context_page_description: A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
  The roads were constructed to link the Central Lowlands with a series of fortified barracks located strategically across the Highlands. Their purpose much like the network of roads constructed by the Romans more than 1,500 years earlier was to suppress and exert control over the local population. The engineered roads of the Roman period did not extend into the Highlands, which was where these later roads were constructed.
  The first four of these roads were constructed in the 1720s and 1730s under the direction of General George Wade and are commonly referred to as General Wade’s Military Roads or simply as Wade’s Roads.
context_section_description: Roads in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire long predated the military but from about 1752 troops under Caulfeild were involved in improvements at least partially at military expense to about 250 miles (400 kilometres) of road. A major route was from Fettercairn over Cairn o' Mount and via Alford, Keith and Huntly to Fochabers. The military improved and maintained this road from about 1761 to 1784 but at Potarch the River Dee always had to be crossed by ferry. Other routes went from Stonehaven via Aberdeen and Kintore to Fochabers and Portsoy; also from Portsoy to Huntly; from Corgarff Castle to Aberdeen by the River Don.Stretches of the road along the River Dee were also maintained.
caption: Bridge of Dye north of Cairn o' Mount
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