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Latitude: 56.0653 / 56°3'54"N
Longitude: -3.5943 / 3°35'39"W
OS Eastings: 300836
OS Northings: 686970
OS Grid: NT008869
Mapcode National: GBR 1S.PVWM
Mapcode Global: WH5QP.RTM5
Entry Name: Valleyfield Wood, Policies of Valleyfield House, Rustic Bridge 1
Listing Date: 30 June 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 353410
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB19122
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Torryburn
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: West Fife and Coastal Villages
Parish: Torryburn
Traditional County: Fife
Built to carry carriage drive, the principal component 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. Some masonry blocks dislodged and in burn (1992).
Of the 5 bridges on the Bluther Burn in this area (NT0087) 2 (timber) footbridges are lost, although their masonry abutments remain at NT 006871 and NT 004873. 3 others are extant, as well as the old and new Mewmills bridges to the S.
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