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Date December 2007

Event ID 550480

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/550480

Cockenzie harbour is depicted on the1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Haddingtonshire 1854, sheet 9), and described in the Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey as 'A small harbour at the W side of Cockenzie at a natural basin. It was constructed in 1855 by Messrs Cadell at a cost of about 400 pounds. The harbour has 16ft depth of water in spring tides, and 10' in neap tides. It affords an easy access for vessels, from it coals are exported to England, France, Germany and the Northern parts of Scotland' (ONB 1853).

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