Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders

Date 2007

Event ID 589242

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/589242

Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders

Cove Harbour, now little used, was completed in 1831. It has two masonry piers forming an entrance about 50 ft

wide with the North Sea and enclosing an area of three acres. Earlier piers, vestiges of which still exist, were

destroyed in storms, but a notable tunnel made through a spur of rock in ca.1752 remains, although somewhat

distorted in parts by recent safeguarding measures. It was formed as part of a harbour improvement by Sir

John Hall of Dunglass to give safe access to the beach (see NT77SE 59.02).

R Paxton and S Shipway 2007

Reproduce from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.