Architecture Notes

Event ID 689883

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS88SE 110.02 8687 8005

The Union Canal branched off just to the W of this lock.

RCAHMS 1963.

Just to the W of this lock, which is traversed by a fixed bridge (NS88SE 149), was the entrance point of the Union Canal.

The Forth and Clyde Canal Guidebook 1991.

This lock is at the summit of the flight of locks bringing the canal up from Grangemouth, and is also at the former terminus for passenger boats from Glasgow. The junction with the Union Canal also occurred at this point.

G Hutton 1998.

This lock is clearly marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1864, sheet xxx), the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982) and the OS Basic Scale digital map (2000).

Information from RCAHMS (MD), 2 November 2000.