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B794

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B794
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From:  Dalbeattie (NX829610)
To:  Corsock (NX767756)
Distance:  11.5 miles (18.5 km)
Meets:  A710, A711, A75, A712
Former Number(s):  B793, A710
Highway Authorities

Dumfries and Galloway

Traditional Counties

Kirkcudbrightshire

Route outline (key)
B794 Dalbeattie - Corsock
B794 Little Cloak - Sandyhills

The B794 is a cross-country B-road in east Kirkcudbrightshire.

Route

The route starts at a signalised crossroads on the A711 to the west of Dalbeattie town centre, where the road opposite is the A710. It heads north along Haugh Road through a suburban landscape predominantly comprised of bungalows. It isn't long before open country is reached, and the route drops down as it follows the valley of the Urr Water upstream, with the river on the left and the hills to the right. The road follows a straighter course than the river meaning the road does go up and down more than expected, but there are a couple of sections along the tree lined river bank. Presently the small village of Haugh of Urr is reached, where the B794 turns sharply left to run along the village's straight main street which is lined with a typical assortment of old and new buildings. At the further end of the village, the route crosses the line of the old military road along the south coast - the forerunner to today's A75.

King's Grange

The route then dips to cross the wooded Spottes Glen and after a brief stretch across the fields it comes to the A75 itself at Chapelton. There is then a short multiplex south through a cutting (shortening the road's old route which is just visible to the east on aerial photographs). The B794 quickly turns right to regain its number, and is once more heading upstream through the valley of the Urr Water. A few windy bends leads to a straighter section at Kings Grange. There's only one settlement of any size on this section, Old Bridge of Urr, which is met at the end of the straight, although most of the houses sit down towards the riverbank on the left. The route continues north west across fields, becoming windier and narrower as the valley slowly closes in. Along the way, it passes through patches of woodland and a few more scattered buildings as it winds into the hills.

After Walton Park, the road drops down closer to the meandering river, and although narrow and twisty at times, it enjoys a pleasant run through the riverside meadows, often on the tree lined riverbank itself. It isn't long, however, before the route comes to its end at a forked T-junction on the A712 on the opposite side of the valley to the small village of Corsock.

History

Judging by its number the B794 came into existence in the mid-1920s, probably as early as 1924. It originally only ran north from Dalbeattie to the A75, but between 1927 and 1932 this section became an extension of the A710, and the B794 moved north along the section from the A75 to the A712. It is not clear if both these sections were ever numbered as the B794 at the same time before 1932. The original B794 had entered Dalbeattie town centre on Maxwell Street, and the A710 extension also followed this route, while the southern end of Haugh Road was the new route of the B793.

The B794 returned to Dalbeattie in the early 1970s, and is first shown on the 1976 OS Landranger. At this time it was routed, as it is now, along the full length of Haugh Road, to meet the new A710 Port Road western bypass route. The 1976 map also shows that the B794 continued, via a long multiplex with the B793 further south to meet the A710 again at Sandyhills. This section of the route forked off the B793 near Little Cloak and ran to the coast via Fairgirth. However, it was short lived and had returned to being an unclassified route by 1988.




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