Upper Victoria

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Upper Victoria
Angus
White Clover and Common Vetch, Upper Victoria - geograph.org.uk - 464120.jpg
Meadow by Upper Victoria
Location
Grid reference: NO536360
Location: 56°30’50"N, 2°45’20"W
Data
Post town: Carnoustie
Postcode: DD7
Dialling code: 01382
Local Government
Council: Angus
Parliamentary
constituency:
Dundee East

Upper Victoria is a hamlet in Angus, along the A92 road between Arbroath and Dundee. It is the location of the junction of the A92 and the Marches, the Craigton to Carnoustie road, forming the main route into Carnoustie.

Upper Victoria was the site of Pitskelly quarry and, in the early 19th century, David Hunter of Blackness constructed a railway line between the quarry and Carnoustie to transport stone railway sleepers to the main line. The stone ultimately proved to be of inferior quality and the venture was abandoned.[1]

References

  1. Dickson, Robert (1892), Carnoustie and its neighbourhood (revised (facsimile 2002) ed.), Balgavies, Angus: Pinkfoot Press