Aberdeenshire Canal

NJ80NE 43.00 8999 0967 to 8962 0999. LIN 14.

NJ80NE 43.01 NJ 8972 0992 Bucksburn, 15 Mugiemoss Road, milestone 4 1/2.

Formerly LIN 523.

The line of the canal is occupied by the Aberdeen - Inverurie railway across the NE corner of this map sheet.

A Graham 1969.

The presumed line of the canal appears to have dropped from about 50m to about 40m OD across this map sheet; the former existence of locks may be assumed.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 28 October 1994.

The canal had been overlaid by the North of Scotland railway in 1854, before the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1869, sheet lxxv) was surveyed. It can be traced on the 1st edition map as the route taken by the railway, heading NW by Auchmill. This appears in the NE corner of the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1987).

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 2 May 2002.

NJ 886 135 Following the demolition of a meat and pie factory and prior to the construction of a housing development, an

assessment took place in June 2005 to locate the Aberdeenshire Canal (NJ80NE 43). The canal was constructed between 1796 and 1801, was opened in 1805, and ran between Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen and Port Elphinstone near Inverurie. The line of the canal is visible on the 1867 OS map, which indicates that it was carried on an embankment across part of this site; and a sketch plan of 1843 shows that a tunnel existed through this embankment.

The assessment revealed that much of the canal had been destroyed by the above-mentioned factory and associated water management. In the area of the tunnel, layers thought to have been associated with the canal were found associated with worked granite blocks, presumably from the collapsed tunnel, but no in situ remains of the canal survived on this site.

Archive to be deposited in NMRS.

Sponsor: Malcolm Allan Housebuilders 2005.

A Cameron 2005.