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Saltcoats Harbour, Waggonway
Wagonway (Post Medieval)
Site Name Saltcoats Harbour, Waggonway
Classification Wagonway (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 78870
Site Number NS24SW 46
NGR NS 247 411
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78870
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Ardrossan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Ayrshire
NS24SW 46 247 411
See also NS24SW 44.
High seas and bad weather over several winters have removed patches of the tarmac laid over a cleared area at the head of Saltcoats Harbour (NS24SW 44), revealing a line of stone sleeper blocks that supported the wooden rails of a waggon way built by Robert Reid Cunninghame in 1812 to carry coal a quarter of a mile over whinstone outcrop from the terminus of the canal network that served his coalpits at Auchenharvie to the harbour. Nearly 35 yards of track can be traced before it dissappears under a recently surfaced path which follows the line of the sea wall.
I Hughson and A Philips 1992.
