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Aerial view showing surrounding area.
SC 361764
Description Aerial view showing surrounding area.
Catalogue Number SC 361764
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ST 10433
Scope and Content Aerial view of Avon Aqueduct, Union Canal, West Lothian The Union Canal was planned and built 1818-22. It ran from Port Hopetoun in Edinburgh to Camelon near Falkirk in Stirlingshire where a ladder of locks connected it with the Forth and Clyde Canal. Abandoned sections of the canal are now being restored. This aerial view shows the Avon Aqueduct, one of three major aqueducts on the canal. Built to designs by Hugh Baird in 1822, it carries the Union Canal over the River Avon. It has 12 round arches, each c.15m wide and standing c.26m above the river. The sandstone piers supporting the iron trough which carries the canal are splayed at the base, with slightly projecting buttresses rising above the wall-head. The cast-iron railings between the buttresses replace original wrought-iron railings. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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