Archaeology Notes

Event ID 838698

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS84SE 131.00 88397 41672

Location formerly cited as NS 8840 4167, and as centred NS 88397 41672.

Not to be confused with Stonebyres Hydro-electric Power Station (NS 85023 44157), for which see NS84SE 99.00.

NS84SE 131.01 c.NS 8849 4147 to NS c. 8846 4072 Aqueduct

NS84SE 131.02 NS 88496 41447 Surge tank

NS84SE 131.03 c.NS 8849 4147 to NS c. 8841 4166 Pipeline

NS84SE 131.04 NS 88471 40682 Weir; Footbridge

Power Station [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.

(Location cited as NS 883 417). Bonnington Power Station, built 1927 by the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co Ltd. A tall, single-storey, 3- by 7-bay, reinforced-concrete building with round-headed windows, and ancillary 3- and 2-storey blocks in similar style. Stonebyres (NS 850 442) is very similar.

J R Hume 1976.

This power station is situated on the E bank of the River Clyde, about 0.5km downstream from Corra Linn [name: NS 8834 4144] and Bonnington Linn [name: NS 8834 4056].

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 February 2006.