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Latitude: 56.1568 / 56°9'24"N
Longitude: -3.5673 / 3°34'2"W
OS Eastings: 302748
OS Northings: 697122
OS Grid: NT027971
Mapcode National: GBR 1T.J2JY
Mapcode Global: WH5QB.5HKY
Plus Code: 9C8R5C4M+P3
Entry Name: Milepost, Cocklaw
Listing Name: Mile Posts on A823 Dunfermline/Rumbling Bridge
Listing Date: 10 July 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392539
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45592
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392539
Location: Saline
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: West Fife and Coastal Villages
Parish: Saline
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Milestone
Probably mid 19th century. Group of 3 cast-iron mile posts on A823, Dunfermline to Rumbling Bridge road. 2-stage, black and white posts each with waisted columnar plinth giving way to finialled, battered rectangular directional faces with name and distance in miles:
NTO43955 - Dunfermline 7 Miles/Rumbling Bridge 9 1/2 Miles
NTO38955 - Dunfermline 8 Miles/Rumbling Bridge 9 1/2 Miles
NTO22977 - Dunfermline 9 Miles/Rumbling Bridge 2 1/2 Miles
Two further mile posts in this Dunfermline to Rumbling Bridge section of the A823 are listed separately in Dunfermline Parish (see LB45591). They are contemporary and similar in form to the mile post that once stood at Cadder Marshalling Yard, Cadder in East Dunbartonshire (now relocated to the foyer of Haymarket Station in Edinburgh (2020
. They are of particular interest for their survival and the continuous run on a short stretch of road, 8.5 miles apart.
Listed building record updated in 2020 (Minor update to Statement of Special Interest).
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