Hawkcraig Point

Latitude: 56° 03'N
Longitude: 03° 17'W
Country: Scotland

About Hawkcraig Point

A ferry used to run across to Leith from this pier, which was built in the 1850s. When the railway came to Aberdour in 1890, the half-hour journey to the centre of Edinburgh soon put the steamers out of business.

The pier is now in a ruinous and dangerous condition.

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