Greeba Bridge
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| Greeba Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 54°11′48.5″N 4°36′20.9″W / 54.196806°N 4.605806°W |
  Location of Greeba Bridge in Isle of Man | |
Greeba Bridge [1] is situated between the 6th milestone and 7th road milestones on the primary A1 Douglas to Peel road and the junction with the Greeba Mill Road in the parish of Kirk German in the Isle of Man.
The A1 Greeba road bridge passes over the Greeba river, a tributary of the River Dhoo which flows eastward to the town of Douglas. [2] The Greeba river flows into the nearby Greeba Curragh or ‘Greeba Gap,’ a former pre-Ice Age river valley,[3] a low-lying watershed of the Douglas to Peel central valley. [4][5]
The area of Greeba /griːɓə/ (Old Norse: gnípa ‘summit, top’ or kúpa ‘bowl, bowl formed valley’)[6] is located in the Central Valley of the Isle of Man.
The nearby area to Greeba Bridge is mainly farmland, located in the former Cronkdhoo Quarterland.[7] The vicinity is dominated by the nearby mountain land of Greeba Mountain (422m) and the Greeba or Kings forestry plantation, along with the nearby summits of Beary Mountain (311m) and Slieau Ruy (479m).[8]