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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 686978
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/686978
NO25SE 63 28237 54665
A dam containing Loch of Lintrathen Reservoir, which has supplied the city of Dundee with water since 1875. Water is stored in the Backwater Reservoir 4km to the N of Loch of Lintrathen, which connected to Loch of Lintrathen by the Back Water'. The water leaves Loch of Lintrathen through sluices at Bridgend of Lintrathen, heading S past Lintrathen Mill towards Dundee in the 'Melgam Water', which joins the River Isla 3 km to the S at Airlie Castle.
Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 2002.
Loch of Lintrathen
(Reservoir) [NAT] (centred NO 2811 5473)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.
