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Latitude: 55.9784 / 55°58'42"N
Longitude: -3.1624 / 3°9'44"W
OS Eastings: 327559
OS Northings: 676765
OS Grid: NT275767
Mapcode National: GBR 8V4.XD
Mapcode Global: WH6SF.DZBS
Plus Code: 9C7RXRHQ+92
Entry Name: Swing Bridge Between Albert And Edinburgh Docks, Leith Docks, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Leith Docks, Edinburgh Dock and Swing Bridge
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364862
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27606
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, Leith Docks, Swing Bridge Between Albert And Edinburgh Docks
ID on this website: 200364862
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Leith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Swing bridge
A M Rendel and G Robertson, 1874-81. Large U-plan wet dock, with S leg infilled and dry dock (listed separately) to central jamb. 1500? x 650? with masonry walls, flagged and setted quayside with bollards. Cast-iron swing bridge to W connecting with Albert Dock, plate girder, parallel construction, at NT 2755 7677.
Group with Edinburgh dry dock and Edinburgh dry dock engine house. An unusually shaped dock complex, the largest of its kind at the time, for which a sea wall reclaiming over 100 acres of ground had to be built (competed 1877).
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