Kirkton, Canal Milestone
Milestone (19th Century)
Site Name Kirkton, Canal Milestone
Classification Milestone (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeenshire Canal Navigation, Milestone 12 1/2; Kirkton Of Kinellar
Canmore ID 157939
Site Number NJ81SW 106
NGR NJ 8227 1454
NGR Description Removed from NJ 8207 1549
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/157939
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kinellar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ81SW 106 8227 1454 removed from NJ 8207 1549
See also NJ81NW 51.07.
A milestone from the Aberdeen-Inverurie canal [Aberdeenshire Canal Navigation] now stands at Kirkton steading (NJ81SW 105). It is marked 12 1/2 miles from Aberdeen.
NMRS, MS/712/92.
This canal milestone, which originally stood about 800m NNW of Kirkton farmsteading (NJ81SW 105), now forms the centrepiece of a rockery in the garden immediately W of the farmhouse there. The granite marker has been sunk into the ground and only the upper 0.65m of the stone is now visible, though even this is largely obscured by the presence of an adjacent young leylandii. The stone measures about 0.3m in diameter and the domed top bears an angled facet on which is incised the number 12½, the distance between the point where the milestone originally stood and the end of the canal in Aberdeen.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 25 September 2001.
