Upper Victoria

Human settlement in Scotland

Angus

Angus

CountryScotlandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townCARNOUSTIEPostcode districtDD7Dialling code01382PoliceScotlandFire Scottish AmbulanceScottish UK Parliament

Dundee East

Scottish Parliament

Angus
North East Scotland

List of places: UK; Scotland

56°30′50″N 2°45′20″W / 56.513751°N 2.755596°W / 56.513751; -2.755596

Upper Victoria is a hamlet in Angus, Scotland. It lies on the A92 road between Arbroath and Dundee and is the location of the junction of the A92 and the Marches, the Craigton to Carnoustie road, forming the main route into Carnoustie.^[1]

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.^[2]

References

^ "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 0-319-22980-7
^ Dickson, Robert (1892), Carnoustie and its neighbourhood (revised (facsimile 2002) ed.), Balgavies, Angus: Pinkfoot Press