Glasgow, Maryhill, Forth & Clyde Canal, Kelvin Aquaduct. General high level view from South East.
SC 361953
Description Glasgow, Maryhill, Forth & Clyde Canal, Kelvin Aquaduct. General high level view from South East.
Catalogue Number SC 361953
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 62027
Scope and Content View from south-east showing Kelvin Aqueduct at Maryhill on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow The Forth and Clyde Canal was Scotland's earliest major, and also longest, canal. It was built in stages between 1768 and 1791. Its structures decayed rapidly after it closed in 1962. A series of aqueducts carried the canal over rivers on its route. This is the Kelvin Aqueduct over the River Kelvin. When it was built in 1787-90 by Robert Whitworth, engineer, this 122m-long aqueduct was the largest aqueduct in Britain. It consists of four 15m-wide segmental arches with V-shaped buttress-piers. The Forth and Clyde Canal joined the Union Canal at Camelon near Falkirk, and allowed travel by water between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Both these canals are currently being restored to re-establish this canal link as a leisure resource. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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