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Port Glasgow, Timber Ponds
Saw Mill (19th Century), Timber Pond(S) (19th Century), Timber Yard (19th Century)
Site Name Port Glasgow, Timber Ponds
Classification Saw Mill (19th Century), Timber Pond(S) (19th Century), Timber Yard (19th Century)
Canmore ID 199737
Site Number NS37SW 144
NGR NS 3141 7501
NGR Description Centred on NS 3138 7498
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/199737
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Port Glasgow
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
Desk Based Assessment (26 July 2016)
Nothing is now visible in an area of ground more recently occupied by the Kingston Shipyard of the sawmill, timber yard and timber ponds depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Renfrew 1864, Sheet II). The sawmill the timber yard stood on the foreshore on the south side of the Clyde estuary and the ponds were situated in the inter-tidal zone immediately to the E.
Information from HES Survey and Recording (JRS) 26 July 2016.
Project (May 2016 - September 2017)
Running from May 2016 to September 2017 and part of the Canmore Mapping Programme, Yard by Yard was an area-focused, desk-based project that tested the Defining Scotland’s Places (DSP) methodology in an area for which the records in the NRHE showed considerable variation from one historic map source to another.
Following discussions with local heritage groups and with the ambition of collecting data useful to the communities’ ambition to develop a coastal heritage trail, the project aimed to map the extent of the shipyards and associated industry between Port Glasgow and Greenock. To achieve this aim, the project used historic mapping, ortho-rectified modern aerial photography and the HES aerial photograph collection to map the extents of, and upgrade the records of, the shipyards and associated features such as quays, docks, areas of land reclamation and associated industry.
