An Unexplained Stone Post in Adambrae Burn
Introduction
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An Unexplained Stone Post in Adambrae Burn
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 8 Jul 2020
The post is bigger than it appears in picture - 2 to 3 feet long. All old maps, which were surveyed before the construction of what we now know as Livingston, show a bridge carrying a track to Crofthead Farm at this location, so this may or may not be relevant. In fact Adambrae is itself a bit of a mystery. The burn only gets its name as it runs through this quite well-off dead-end suburb of Livingston. Adambrae itself used to be a farm a fair distance Northeast of the suburb, just South of the River Almond, roughly where the MacArthur Glen shopping centre now is, closer to the Livingston suburbs of Howden and Dedridge. OS now muddies the waters further by showing Adambrae in two places - where the old farm once stood, and then even further South of the suburb now called Adambrae, at the East of Bellsquarry village!
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Image Location
Latitude
55.873146
Longitude
-3.529436