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Valleyfield House, Valleyfield Wood, Rustic Bridge 2

Ornamental Bridge (19th Century)

Site Name Valleyfield House, Valleyfield Wood, Rustic Bridge 2

Classification Ornamental Bridge (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Bluther Burn; Valleyfield House Policies

Canmore ID 222318

Site Number NT08NW 15.05

NGR NT 00730 87122

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/222318

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Torryburn
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Dunfermline
  • Former County Fife

Architecture Notes

NT08NW 15.05 00730 87122

See also NT08NW 15.04, Rustic Bridge 1 (NT 00836 86970).

It is likely but not certain that collection item E42566 relates to this bridge; this has not been verified at time of entry.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

This bridge crosses the Bluther Burn between the parishes of Torryburn (to the E) and Culross (to the W).

Information from RCAHMS (JM), October 2002.

Site Management (7 November 2007)

Components of Humphrey Repton's landscape design of circa 1800-1804. Picturesque masonry footbridge, single arch spanning the Bluther Burn. Cyclopean, "rustic" masonry, voussoirs of volcanic type rock.

Part of the former Valleyfield House Estate was acquired by Dunfermline District Council in 1988 as a country park. (Historic Scotland)

Activities

Standing Building Recording (2012)

NT 00400 87300 A photographic and drawn survey was produced of five structures at Valleyfield in advance of restoration works. Built at the behest of Sir Robert Preston of Valleyfield in the early 1800s, these constitute the surviving remnants of the only Repton designed landscape in Scotland.

The structures consisted of two ornamental stairs in the walled Flower Garden, a rusticated arch to the NW of the Flower Garden, and two rusticated bridges. The bridges were located on the driveway through the valley of the Bluther Burn, which once led to the now demolished mansion of Valleyfield.

Archive: RCAHMS. Report: Fife Council Archaeology Service

Funder: Fife Council

Louise Turner, Rathmell Archaeology Ltd

2012

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