Union Canal, Falkirk, Port Downie Lock Flight
Canal Basin (Period Unassigned), Lock (Post Medieval), Reservoir (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Union Canal, Falkirk, Port Downie Lock Flight
Classification Canal Basin (Period Unassigned), Lock (Post Medieval), Reservoir (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Port Maxwell To Port Downie Lock Flight, Forth And Clyde Canal
Canmore ID 293114
Site Number NS87NE 103
NGR NS 86638 79719
NGR Description NS 86893 79647 to NS 86828 80014
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293114
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Falkirk
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS87NE 103.00 NS 86638 79719
See also:
NS87NE 103.01 - 103.21 Individual locks and Basins in the flight
NS87NE 31.00 Union Canal
NS88SE 110.00 Forth and Clyde Canal
NS88SE 80 Port Downie Basin
NS88SE 148 Port Downie Drawbridge
NS88SE 171 Port Downie Basin
This was a flight of locks taking the canal down to the Forth and Clyde Canal (NS88SE 110.00) at Port Downie Basin (NS88SE 171).
H Brown 1997.
This lock flight is clearly visible on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1864, sheet xxx) and on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1899, sheet xxx NW).
Information from RCAHMS (MD), 10 May 2001.
This site (NS87NE 103.00) was formerly used for what is now NS87NE 103.21 (Numlink 185273), the topmost individual lock (#11) in the flight, but changed to allow a main site for the whole lock flight to be recorded.
Information from RCAHMS (GJK), 4 March 2008.
