Newburgh
Anti Tank Ditch (20th Century)
Site Name Newburgh
Classification Anti Tank Ditch (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fife Anti-tank Line; Command Line
Canmore ID 275140
Site Number NO21NW 163
NGR NO 2406 1834
NGR Description NO 2403 1802 to NO c. 2378 1863
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Newburgh
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO21NW 163.00 2403 1802 to c. 2378 1863
NO21NW 163.01 NO 24161 17988 Pillbox
NO21NW 163.02 NO 2377 1864 Anti-tank blocks
NO21NW 163.03 NO 24905 19186 Anti Tank blocks
NO21NW 163.04 NO 24999 71854 Anti tank ditch; Road Block
For previous section of anti-tank ditch see NO21NE 96.
The soilmark of a WW II anti-tank ditch is visible on vertical air photographs taken in 1946 (106G/Scot/UK 27, 3176-3177, flown 18 April 1946), traversing N from the pillbox at NO 24161 17988(NO21NW 163.01), to a point immediately N of the Cupar Road where it alters direction to the NW (NO 2407 1833), then through the playing field to the coast where it ended in a group of anti-tank blocks (NO21NW 163.02).
Much of the course of the ditch has now been built over by new houses in Robertson Crescent.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2005.
