Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Burntisland, East Port
Gateway (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Burntisland, East Port
Classification Gateway (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Burntisland, High Street
Canmore ID 52813
Site Number NT28NW 4
NGR NT 2346 8590
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52813
- Council Fife
- Parish Burntisland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT28NW 4 2346 8590.
(NT 2346 8590) East Port (NR)
OS 6" map, Fifeshire, 1st ed., (1854)
East Port, Burntisland. The entrance into the High Street at the E end. The former chief magistrate, and the present town clerk, believe that the town was at one time fortified and that this was the East Gate or Port.
Both recall that there was a stone arch over the street here, and
that it was taken down because of its obstruction to traffic. There are now no remains.
No other entrance to the town has the name of Port.
Name Book 1854.
A barrier across the High Street is shown on Elphinstone's plan of Bunrtisland c. 1745 (Roy Scot Geogr Soc 1936) It is not named.
Roy Scot Geogr Soc 1936.
East Port: erected AD 1635, demolished AD 1843.
A Young 1924.
There are no structural remains of this gate.
Visited by OS (A C) 10 March 1959.
