# Ballaugh Bridge

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Ballaugh Bridge Interactive map of Ballaugh Bridge 54°18′34.8″N 4°32′29.2″W / 54.309667°N 4.541444°W / 54.309667; -4.541444 History Built c. 1739

**Ballaugh Bridge**[1] is located on the primary [A3](/source/A3_road_(Isle_of_Man)) [Castletown](/source/Castletown%2C_Isle_of_Man) to [Ramsey](/source/Ramsey%2C_Isle_of_Man) road and adjacent to the road junctions with the [A10](/source/A10_road_(Isle_of_Man)) Ballaugh to Ramsey coast road and the tertiary C37 Ballaugh Glen Road in the parish of [Ballaugh](/source/Ballaugh_(parish)) in the [Isle of Man](/source/Isle_of_Man).

## Description

Ballaugh Bridge is a [hump-backed road bridge](/source/Humpback_bridge) over the Ravensdale River,[2] located in the village of [Ballaugh](/source/Ballaugh).

## Motor-sport heritage

[A3](/source/A3_road_(Isle_of_Man)) [Castletown](/source/Castletown%2C_Isle_of_Man) to [Ramsey](/source/Ramsey%2C_Isle_of_Man) Road at Ballaugh Bridge with the C37 Ballaugh Glen Road and the [A10](/source/A10_road_(Isle_of_Man)) Ballaugh Station Road

Ballaugh Bridge was part of the 52.15 mile [Highland Course](/source/Highland_Course) (amended to 40.38 miles in 1906[3]) and the 37.50 Mile [Four Inch Course](/source/Four_Inch_Course) used for automobile racing including the 1904 Gordon Bennett Trial and the RAC Tourist Trophy car races held between 1905 and 1922.[4]

It was also the western edge of the *Sandygate Loop* for the 1904 Gordon Bennett British Eliminating Trial and the 1905 Tourist Trophy Race for automobiles. The 1906 Tourist Trophy Race used the Short [Highroads Course](/source/Highroads_Course), with the abandonment of the *Sandygate Loop* in favour of the A3 Castletown to Ramsey Road from [Ballacraine](/source/Ballacraine) corner to Ramsey.

In [1911](/source/1911_Isle_of_Man_TT), the Four Inch Course for automobiles was first used by the Auto-Cycling Union for the [Isle of Man TT](/source/Isle_of_Man_TT) motor-cycle races. This included Ballaugh Bridge[5] and the course later became known as the 37.73 mile [Isle of Man TT Mountain Course](/source/Isle_of_Man_TT_Mountain_Course) which has been used since 1911 for the [Isle of Man TT](/source/Isle_of_Man_TT) Races and from 1923 for the [Manx Grand Prix](/source/Manx_Grand_Prix) races.[6]

## Road improvements

The Bridge was subject to road widening and reprofiling during the winter of 1953/1954 for the [1954 Isle of Man TT](/source/1954_Isle_of_Man_TT) races including the removal of a garden wall[7] of the adjacent Ballaugh Railway Hotel (now the *Raven Hotel*).[8] Ballaugh Bridge is the only remaining hump-backed bridge on the TT Course after the removal of [Sulby Bridge](/source/Sulby_Bridge) in the 1920s and [Ballig Bridge](/source/Ballig) in 1935.[9]

## Roadside memorial

Located near to Ballaugh Bridge is a road-side memorial to [Karl Gall](/source/Karl_Gall_(motorcycle_racer)), a member of the pre-war works [BMW](/source/BMW) motor-cycle team[10] who died from injuries suffered after crashing near to the bridge during evening practice for the [1939 Isle of Man TT](/source/1939_Isle_of_Man_TT) races.[11][12]

## Gallery

		- Hervé Gantner riding a motorcycle on Ballaugh Bridge.

## Sources

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** *Daily Express* page 58 Monday 2 June 2008

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *Brown’s Directory for the Isle of Man* page 452 BALLAUGH Brown & Sons (1894) The Isle of Man Times Press

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** *TT Pioneers – Early Car Racing in the Isle of Man* page 22 Robert Kelly, Mercury Asset Management (1996) (1st Edition) The Manx Experience, The Alden Press ISBN No 1 873120 61 3

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** *Isle of Man Car Races 1904–1953* page 30 by Neil Hanson (2015) Lily Publications [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-907945-36-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-907945-36-6)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** *TT Special* page 24 THE T.T. MOUNTAIN COURSE edited by G.S. Davison Wednesday 14 June 1961 “(7) Ballaugh Bridge”

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** *The History of the Manx Grand Prix* page 7, 8, 9 by Bill Snelling Amulree Publishing(1998) Manx Heritage Foundation [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1 901508 04 8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1_901508_04_8)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** *Isle of Man Examiner* page 6 Friday 24 May 1954

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** *Isle of Man Times* page 6 Saturday 29 May 1954 “Ballaugh Bridge has been greatly modified.”

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** *Isle of Man Weekly Times* dated 25 May 1935

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** *The Tourist Trophy in Old Photographs Collected by Bill Snelling.* Page 58 1st Edition (1994) Sutton Publishing [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-84015-059-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84015-059-9)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** *Isle of Man Times* page 17 Saturday 10 June 1939

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** *Daily Express* page 1 Wednesday 14 June 1939

## External links

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