B1343 (Berwickshire)

This article is about the original B1343 in Berwickshire.
For the current B1343 in East Lothian, see B1343.

Towards Eyemouth on the now-unclassified former B1343

The B1343 was a short B-road in east Berwickshire. It started on the A1 at Burnmouth and headed north into Eyemouth, where it crossed the Eye Water and met the B6364 on the west bank, where it appears to have ended. However, the mapping is not entirely clear and it may have turned right to end by the church at the north end of Victoria Road. By 1927 the route had been extended westwards through Coldingham to meet the A1 once more at Tower Bridge near Cockburnspath. At this point, therefore, it must have turned right off the bridge in Eyemouth and passed the church. The road to the left here had also been renumbered as a re-routed B6355.

Within five years, the whole route was renumbered as the A1107 Berwickshire coast road. This is first shown on the 1932 OS Ten Mile Map. In the 1970s, most of the southern section of the original B1343 was declassified as the A1107 was rerouted onto a previously unclassified route which had been thoroughly upgraded and straightened.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Burmouth - Eyemouth