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Publication Account
Date 2000
Event ID 1018319
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018319
The nineteenth century was to bring great changes to Linlithgow. One of the most important innovations was the construction of the Union Canal figure 20 from 1818 to 1822. Originally intended to link with Linlithgow Loch, the engineer, James Baird, persuaded the Union Canal Company to go ahead with a contour canal, following the course of the hillside behind the town. This obviated the need for locks, as the canal ran at the same level along the thirty-one and a half miles from Edinburgh to Falkirk. During the construction Baird stayed at the (still standing) Canal House at the Manse Basin figure 20 (seep 41); it was from here that the 'navvies', who laboured on the canal, were paid every Saturday.
Information from ‘Historic Linlithgow: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (2000).
