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River Clyde, Glespinhope
Aerial Cableway (20th Century)
Site Name River Clyde, Glespinhope
Classification Aerial Cableway (20th Century)
Canmore ID 345926
Site Number NS91NE 89
NGR NS 96712 19637
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/345926
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Crawford
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (12 November 2014)
This cableway, which is situated immediately SW of Glespinhope, comprises a pair of steel track cables strung across the River Clyde and supported at a height of at least 2.1m on both the east and west banks by a timber frame constructed of old telegraph poles behind which the cables have been anchored into the ground. A steel cage suspended below the cables on small wheels (one above each corner of the cage) lay partly submerged in the river on the date of visit and there was no sign of the haulage rope that would have been required to pull the cage back and forth. Currently in a state of dilapidation, the cableway would have been used to transport goods across the river, possibly even sheep in times of spate.
Visited by RCAHMS (AM) 12 November 2014.
