Publication Account

Date 2013

Event ID 979773

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/979773

A good natural harbour formed by a bay and a rocky headland, with some of that rock incorporated into the low quay walls in the C16-C17th centuries. A sundial is fixed to the steps in front of the old tolbooth and a pier was added in 1700. Robert Stevenson advised that a stone stack (the stone in the haven?) be blown up to facilitate construction in 1826 of the south pier. This was followed by an internal jetty in 1837, forming three basins. A mass concrete breakwater completed the enclosure in 1901. There is a pilot beacon at the end of the breakwater and two leading lights in boxed lanterns, one fixed to a granary, now restaurant, the other fixed to a wooden post.

Ref: Angus Graham, 1979; Paxton and Shipway 2007.

M Watson, 2013