Monument record MHG2085 - Wick Harbour

Letter from HS received 21/1/03. Wick Harbour Coast Protection Scheme 2002.
See Assoc. Docs. File
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(Location cited as ND 368 505). Pultneytown Harbour. Built from 1824, first engineer Thomas Telford. The main harbour consists of two irregularly-shaped large basins, with a massive breakwater terminating in a lighthouse with a tapering octagonal tower. The other fixed light is on four cast-iron legs. At the extreme landward end of the inner basin is a boat slip. The harbour works are largely executed in mass concrete.
J R Hume 1977.

The Inner Harbour on S (or Pultneytown) side of Wick Bay was built in 1808 by George Burn and reconstructed by Thomas Telford in 1824-31; it forms a roughly triangular basin. In 1862-7 the Outer Harbour to SE was begun with building of the South Pier, designed by D and T Stevenson. The protection offered by this Outer Harbour was much improved in 1882-7, when James Barron extended the South Pier and added a breakwater to the Inner Harbour's North Pier to cover the Outer's previously open NE side. At the same time the old part of the North Pier was broadened and a new harbour (the River Basin) formed at the mouth of the Wick River by the construction of the South River Pier (extending N from the North Pier) and of the North River Pier (from the river's N bank. Most of what is now visible is Barron's work, concrete the dominant material. Lighthouse at the end of the South pier, a tapering octagonal tower.
J Gifford 1992.



REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office

RHP 8722 and 8724, Robt. Stevenson 1822 - plan & section of imp to harbour