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Latitude: 56.1189 / 56°7'8"N
Longitude: -3.1361 / 3°8'9"W
OS Eastings: 329460
OS Northings: 692378
OS Grid: NT294923
Mapcode National: GBR 2B.LHDL
Mapcode Global: WH6RV.SGTJ
Plus Code: 9C8R4V97+HH
Entry Name: Lookout Tower, Ravenscraig Park
Listing Name: Ravenscraig Park, Lookout Tower
Listing Date: 26 March 1998
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392491
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45546
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392491
Location: Kirkcaldy
County: Fife
Town: Kirkcaldy
Electoral Ward: Kirkcaldy East
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Tower
Early 19th century. Small, circular, conical-roofed lookout tower adjoining rubble-coped rubble sea-defence walls at extreme angle directly above shoreline. Squared rubble with ashlar margins and stone slab roof. Round-headed doorway to N, large gunloops to S, E and W.
Situated to the E of the beehive dovecote (listed separately), the tower forms part of the sea wall overlooking the Forth. Ravenscraig Park was gifted to the community by Sir Michael Nairn in 1929. It will have served also as a garden folly/gazebo within the park.
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