It seems like quite an engineering feat for 1793. Back then, Britain was starting to launch its world-spanning empire, so it was appropriate that a great nation would attempt to build a bridge across an entire ocean.
That’s what the Clachan Bridge does. On one side is mainland Scotland and on the other the island of Seril. Between them flows a narrow channel of the Atlantic Ocean. So, technically speaking, it crosses an ocean.
Atlas Obscura shares an amusing story about an inn on the mainland side of the bridge. The Tig an Truish (The House of the Trousers) got its name after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. The English suppressed Scottish culture after that failed uprising and forbad Scotsmen from wearing kilts. So islanders would change into trousers at the inn on their way to work and then back into kilts on their way back home on the island.
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