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North Queensferry, Battery Quarry, Deep Sea World
Aquarium (20th Century), Visitor Centre (20th Century)
Site Name North Queensferry, Battery Quarry, Deep Sea World
Classification Aquarium (20th Century), Visitor Centre (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Carlingnose Point
Canmore ID 279517
Site Number NT18SW 347
NGR NT 13354 80375
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/279517
- Council Fife
- Parish Inverkeithing
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SW 347 13354 80375
See also NT18SW 346.
This marine visitor centre and aquarium has been built within the N side of Battery Quarry (NT18SW 346).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 March 2006.
Publication Account (1999)
In several places, both in the heart of the village and beside it, are reminders of another important facet of village life-the quarries. Quarrying commenced in the late eighteenth century; it became and remained the most important source of local employment until well into the 1930s. One of the quarry holes now serves as the site of Deep Sea World. Nearby, Fortthside Terrace housed the quarry workmen.
Information from ‘Historic North Queensferry and the Peninsula: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1999).
Note (12 December 2011)
For cannon from The Pillow or Pillow Rock, Kirk Haven, Isle of May (May Island) now on display at Deep Sea world, see NT69NE 8069.
