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Glasgow Corporation Water Works, 1885 Aqueduct, Ballewan Aqueduct Bridge

Aqueduct (Period Unassigned), Bridge (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Glasgow Corporation Water Works, 1885 Aqueduct, Ballewan Aqueduct Bridge

Classification Aqueduct (Period Unassigned), Bridge (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Loch Katrine Scheme

Canmore ID 286403

Site Number NS58SW 35

NGR NS 54499 81310

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Stirling
  • Parish Strathblane (Stirling)
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Stirling
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Archaeology Notes

NS58SW 35 54499 81310

Loch Katrine aqueduct, Ballewan 1885 aqueduct bridge (Muylle Id no = 270): This one-arched masonry aqueduct bridge which carries water in an enclosed iron trough. There is original railings and a grille for access and ladder allowing access down onto the deck of the bridge. This aqueduct bridge dates from 1893 (as part of the second aqueduct phase which was begin in the 1880s and inaugurated in 1901).

Information from Jelle Muylle, engineer carrying out a survey of aqueducts and related structures of the Glasgow

Corporation Loch Katrine Waterworks Scheme, 2006.

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