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Kirnie Law, Reservoir

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Reservoir (20th Century) (1919)-(1921)

Site Name Kirnie Law, Reservoir

Classification Reservoir (20th Century) (1919)-(1921)

Alternative Name(s) Tweedvale Mill And Tweedholm Mill; Walkerburn Pumped Storage Hydro-electric Scheme; Walkerburn Hydro-electric Installation

Canmore ID 83460

Site Number NT33NW 58

NGR NT 34841 38691

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Detail of E wall showing construction details.
Detail of E wall showing construction details.View from SE of damaged E wall.Newscutting.View from SE looking from top of reservoir wall.Detail of E wall showing construction details.View from NE showing spillway on E side wall of reservoir.View from SE of reservoir.Detail in SE corner of reservoir showing filling pipe.View from SE looking from top of reservoir wall.View from S along top of E wall of reservoir with spillway in foreground.View from SE of damaged E wall.General view of reservoir from S. Note spillway on right side.View from E showing spillway on E side wall of reservoir.General view of reservoir from S. Note spillway on right side.View from SW inside reservoir.View from SE inside reservoir.View from WNW inside reservoir.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Innerleithen
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT33NW 58.00 34841 38691

NT33NW 58.01 34897 38245 Surge Tower (Pumping Station)

This reservoir is depicted, but not noted, on the 1983 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map. It presumably supplied the Tweedvale Mills (centred NT 3595 3705) at Walkerburn, for which see NT33NE 24.00.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 March 2006.

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