page_title: Bridge of Earn
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Bridge of Earn / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridge of Earn Station. View SE, towards Forth Bridge and Edinburgh/Glasgow, also left to Newburgh; ex-NBR Edinburgh/Glasgow - Perth main line, junction of the line from Ladybank via Newburgh. THe station was closed to passengers on 15/6/64 (goods 21/6/65) and on 5/1/70 the main line via Glenfarg was closed (and the M9 Motorway built over it), trains to Perth being diverted (from 10/75!) via Ladybank over the Newburgh line, which had lost its local passenger trains on 19/9/55.
context_page_description: Bridge of Earn is a small town in Perthshire, Scotland.
  Often referred to simply as 'The Brig'. The village grew up on the south bank of an important crossing of the River Earn, whose sandstone bridge existed from at least the early 14th century, when it is known to have been repaired by order of King Robert I of Scotland. Substantial remains of the medieval bridge survived into the 1970s, when almost all the stonework was demolished, for being in a dangerously ruinous condition. This ancient bridge was a major landmark on the road between Edinburgh and Perth for several centuries. The village's oldest houses are to be found lining the road leading south from the site of the demolished bridge. Among them are some with 18th-century datestones.
  The ruined Old Bridge of Earn are featured in the 1857 painting Sir Isumbras at the Ford by John Everett Millais, who often stayed at nearby Perth. There is also an early 19th-century lithograph showing the structure as complete in Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire by David Octavius Hill.
context_section_description: Apart from the parish church and the primary school, the facilities in the village include three parks (Victory, Balmanno & Kintillo), a bowling club, tennis courts, Moncreiffe nursing home, three pubs (Last Cast, Cypress Inn & Village Inn), two restaurants (Village Inn & The Roost), a dentist, a GP surgery, Used car dealership/ garage (Cargill's Auto Repairs) and several shops including The Co-operative Food supermarket, a newsagents (S&V Newsagents), a bakery (Tower Bakery), two hairdressers (Tanya Black's & Little Hair Company), beauty salon (The Retreat), a Chinese takeaway (Wok In) and a small family run Indian restaurant and takeaway.  (The Spice Garden above the Village Inn).
  There are also self-catering holiday lodges in Bridge of Earn by the banks of the River Earn (River Edge Lodges).
  The spa at the neighbouring hamlet (1 mile or 1.5 kilometres west) of Pitkeathly Wells was formerly well-known and popular as a health and social resort, but was closed in 1949.
caption: Until 1964, Bridge of Earn had a railway station opened by the North British Railway
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