Muckle Spate

The Muckle Spate was a great flood in August 1829, which devastated much of Strathspey, in the north east of Scotland.

Carrbridge's most famous landmark, the old bridge, built in 1717,[5] from which the village is named, was severely damaged and left in the condition we see today.

[6] Across the north-east between six and eight individuals lost their lives, 22 bridges and 60 houses were destroyed and 600 families were made homeless.

[7][1] The Muckle Spate is remembered in a poem of the same name by David Grant, written circa 1851, describing the effect on the parish of Strachan.

[8] The spate was a natural disaster unparalleled in the historic record of the north-east of Scotland described as one of "the most severe catastrophic floods in modern UK history".