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Treasured Places
Date 21 June 2007
Event ID 545949
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Treasured Places
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/545949
In 2001 the Falkirk Wheel opened as part of the Millennium Link, re-establishing the connection between the Union and the Forth and Clyde Canals. It consists of a rotating wheel, which carries two cassions (gondolas) between the higher, Union Canal, to the Forth and Clyde Canal below. Construction required an extension to the Union Canal, which included an underground tunnel in order to avoid damaging the nearby Antonine Wall. The wheel was the first structure of its kind in the world.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 21 June 2007
Gifford, J and Walker, F A 2002
