Newport-on-tay, Boat Road, Ferry Pier And Terminal Including Stone Setts
Crane (19th Century), Pier (19th Century)
Site Name Newport-on-tay, Boat Road, Ferry Pier And Terminal Including Stone Setts
Classification Crane (19th Century), Pier (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Newport Harbour; Tay Estuary Research Centre
Canmore ID 33141
Site Number NO42NW 36
NGR NO 41850 27740
NGR Description Centred NO 41850 27740
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33141
- Council Fife
- Parish Forgan
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO42NW 36 centred 41850 27740
Location formerly entered as NO 4185 2774.
Tay Estuary Research Centre. Large cobbled slipway, quay, outer timber frame gantry perpendicular to quay, old harbour light, crane- used as a ferry pier between Newport + Dundee (Discovery Point)
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Fife Ness to Newburgh 1996.
Publication Account (2013)
NEWPORT ON TAY, FERRY SLIP
Built 1822 to Thomas Telford designs, to complement that at Craig Harbour, Dundee. The booking office/ waiting room is by Charles and
Leslie Ower, 1880. Now used by the University of Dundee for its marine studies as the Tay Estuary Research Centre.
M Watson, 2013
