Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564510
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564510
Neptune's Staircase, 1807-11, 1807-11 , The Caledonian Canal's best known feature, situated just short of its terminus at Loch Linnhe. Now hydraulically operated, this remarkable ladder of eight locks allows vessels to rise or drop 64 ft.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk