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Latitude: 55.3241 / 55°19'26"N
Longitude: -3.8094 / 3°48'33"W
OS Eastings: 285288
OS Northings: 604828
OS Grid: NS852048
Mapcode National: GBR 16VW.28
Mapcode Global: WH5V8.GF6T
Plus Code: 9C7R85FR+J6
Entry Name: Railway Embankment, Priestcrown Wood, Durisdeer
Listing Name: Priestcrown Wood Railway Embankment
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 335046
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3879
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Durisdeer, Priestcrown Wood, Railway Embankment
ID on this website: 200335046
Location: Durisdeer
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Durisdeer
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Closeburn-New Cumnock line, John Miller engineer, opened
28.10.1850. Railway embankment built above curved stretch of
roadway. Stugged red ashlar with bull-faced coping slabs.
Main wall sweeps upward from outer ends and is supported by
close-spaced shallow-battered tall plain buttresses, these
stepped below main coping - lower, steeply-battered
buttressing fills most intermediate spaces.
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