Historically, the area in the vicinity of the Cowie Bridge site has been an old fishing village known as Cowie Village.[1] Between the Cowie Bridge and the North Sea, a new pedestrian bridge is planned, which will also support a new pipeline structure.[2] The site of Cowie Bridge is approximately the point of the southern terminus of the Causey Mounthtrackway, which was the only available medieval route crossing the coastalGrampian Mountains northerly by way of Muchalls Castle and Gillybrands.[3]