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East Pow
Drain (Period Unassigned)
Site Name East Pow
Classification Drain (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) The Pow; Marlefield; Easter Powside
Canmore ID 100186
Site Number NO02SE 154
NGR NO 0500 2457
NGR Description From NO 0500 2457 to NO 0572 2460
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100186
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Methven
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SE 154 0500 2457 to 0572 2460
See also NO02SW 96.
East Pow [NAT] (at NO 062 248)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.
The current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1985) depicts the angular course of what is evidently an artificial drainage channel formed from the East Pow flowing towards the E and NE from Methven Moss (which is centred at NO 011 236) as far as Easter Powside (NO 0572 2460) where the course of the channel becomes less regular and the work of improvement appears to have ceased. The East Pow flows into the River Almond (itself a tributary of the River Tay) at Huntingtower (NN 0689 2563). It appears probable that this ditch, together with the Pow Water (NN92SW 1O9, NN92SE 73 and NO02SW 95) has formed the basis for a major drainage scheme intended to bring under cultivation the extensive flat ground of lower Strathearn These works may be tentatively attributed to the period of agricultural improvement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and some at least of the large farmsteadings that border the flat ground may also be attributed to the same scheme.
The artificial channel of the East Pow appears to run across this map sheet from Marlefield (NO 0500 2457) to Easter Powside (NO 0572 2460). It forms the boundary between the parishes of Tibbermore (to the S and E) and Methven (to the N and W).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 1996.
