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Inverness Harbour, Shore Street Quay

Quay (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Inverness Harbour, Shore Street Quay

Classification Quay (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) River Ness

Canmore ID 279998

Site Number NH64NE 129.07

NGR NH 66415 46025

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Inverness And Bona
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH64NE 129.07 66415 46025

For Harbour Office (NH 66383 45943), see NH64NE 129.08.

Quay [NAT] (at NH 6642 4610)

OS 1:1250 map, 1971.

The location assigned to this record defines the approximate midpoint of the quay. The 1971 edition of the OS 1:1250 map indicates that it extends from NH c. 66431 46135 to NH c. 66390 45965.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 March 2006.

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Publication Account (2007)

Inverness Harbour

(Institute Civil Engineers Historic Engineering Works no. HEW 2534)

The harbour is located at the sheltered entrance to the Ness chiefly on the east bank of the river. Construction of the five-span Ness Viaduct for the Ross-shire Railway in 1862, for which Mitchell was the engineer, cut off the old harbour and resulted in Shore Street Quay being built downstream at the railway company’s expense.

In 1883 a new masonry quay was built at Shore Street in front of the old one.

R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.

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