Riccarton Junction
Riccarton Junction is a hamlet in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Riccarton Junction is situated nearby to the hamlet Leysburnfoot, as well as near the locality Ninestane Rig.Places of Interest
Highlights include Whitrope Siding and Whitrope Viaduct.
Whitrope Siding
Railway station
Photo: Dougsim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Whitrope Siding was a trailing short siding or spur off the "up" line, an associated trailing cross-over between up and down lines, a pair of railway cottages and a signal box on the Waverley Line or Waverley Route. Whitrope Siding is situated 1½ miles northwest of Riccarton Junction.
Whitrope Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitrope Viaduct is a bridge, which is situated 1½ miles northwest of Riccarton Junction.
Saughtree railway station
Guest house
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saughtree railway station is a closed railway station situated a mile north of the hamlet of Saughtree and two miles from the border with England. Saughtree railway station is situated 1½ miles east of Riccarton Junction.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ninestane Rig and Saughtree.
Ninestane Rig
Locality
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ninestane Rig is a small stone circle in Scotland near the English border. Located in Roxburghshire, near to Hermitage Castle, it was probably made between 2000 BC and 1250 BC, during the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
Saughtree
Hamlet
Saughtree is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders at the junction of the B6357 and an unnamed road from Kielder village in Northumberland, England. It is at the confluence of the Liddel Water and Dawston Burn, in Liddesdale.
Hermitage
Hamlet
Hermitage is a village near Newcastleton, on the B6399, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Hermitage is situated 2½ miles southwest of Riccarton Junction.
Riccarton Junction
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.27232° or 55° 16′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.72597° or 2° 43′ 34″ westOpen location code
9C7V77CF+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 9217019827OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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