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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 754804
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/754804
NT27SW 83.06 2466 7276
When Port Hopetoun (NT27SW 83.01) and Port Hamilton (NT27SW 83.05) were closed in 1922, a new (scheduled) terminus was built (at NT 2463 7281) on the S side of Fountainbridge. It took its name, Lochrin Basin, from an earlier basin of the same name (at NT 2466 7277). This was an offshoot of the main line of the canal, used by Haig's distillery and appears to have been abandoned before the 'ports'. The bricked-up remains of a very low old bridge, on the offside of the 'new' Lochrin Basin, may have been the entrance to the old, the site of which has been filled-in and built upon.
J Lindsay 1968; G Hutton 1993a.
The site of this basin is near the current end of the canal.
H Brown 1997.
The original Lochrin Basin is clearly marked on the 1sr Edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1855, sheet 2).
Information from RCAHMS (MD) 23 January 2001.
Elements of the original basin, filled in during the 1930s, have been revealed during the re-development of the former Armold Clark garage. An inset ring and part of the quayside were revealed.
Information to RCAHMS from Mr C Hill via e-mail, 29 August 2005
