Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929932
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929932
Spynie Canal
The present canal, about 7 miles long, was built from 1808–12 to a plan prepared by Telford to drain an area of low-lying land known as Loch Spynie between the town of Elgin and the sea. It was an extension of an earlier scheme and had an outfall through sluices into the sea at Lossiemouth. William Hughes was the contractor and the work cost
£12 740.
The canal was badly damaged by a flood in 1829. It was 1860 before reconstruction work eventually commenced. The canal, which had silted up, was deepened, and a heavy masonry outfall structure with four self-acting sluices was built at Lossiemouth. The work costing about £8000 was completed in 1863. Peter MacBey, a local surveyor, acted as engineer.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
