Banknock, Bankier Distillery
Distillery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Banknock, Bankier Distillery
Classification Distillery (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 45863
Site Number NS77NE 55
NGR NS 77850 78880
NGR Description Centred NS 77580 78880
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45863
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Denny
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS77NE 55 centred 77580 78880
For (associated) Bankier Quay (on Forth and Clyde Canal, at NS 7784 7877), see NS77NE 108.
(Location cited as NS 778 789). Bankier Distillery, founded 1828 by Daniel Macfarlane. A complex of buildings of various dates, dominated by two pyramidal-roofed kilns, serving a two-storey range of malting floors. This distillery was served by a horse tramway to a wharf on the the Forth and Clyde Canal, which still survives.
J R Hume 1976.
