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Pow Water
Drain (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pow Water
Classification Drain (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) The Pow; Sweeps Stank
Canmore ID 100181
Site Number NN92SE 73
NGR NN 9999 2252
NGR Description From NN 9999 2252 to NN 9500 2252
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100181
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Methven
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN92SE 73 9999 2252 to 9500 2252
See also NN92SW 109 and NO02SW 95.
Pow Water [NAT] (at NN 976 229)
Sweeps Stank [NAT] (at NN 952 226)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.
The OS 1:10,000 map (1992) depicts the angular course of what is evidently an artificial drainage channel formed from the Pow Water flowing towards the W and SW from Methven Moss (which is centred at NO 011 236) as far as Dollerie Bridge (NN 9071 2092) where the course of the channel becomes less regular and the work of improvement appears to have ceased. The Pow Water flows into the River Earn at Innerpeffray (NN 8975 1858) and is known locally as The Pow.
The ditch noted as Sweeps Stank (NN 9550 2273 to 9447 2261) has apparently formed a major tributary, while, along the greater part of its course, the Pow is joined at frequent intervals (and roughly at right-angles) by shorter tributary streams and ditches which form the basis of the layout of the present network of fields. The landscape is flat and the soils generally peaty.
It appears probable that this ditch, together with the East Pow (NO02SW 96 and NO02SE 154) has formed the basis for a major drainage scheme intended to bring under cultivation the extensive flat ground of lower Strathearn These works may be tentatively attributed to the period of agricultural improvement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and at least some of the large farmsteadings that border the flat ground may also be attributed to the same scheme.
The artificial channel of the Pow Water appears to run across this map sheet from Balgowan (NN 9999 2252) to Inchaffray (NN 9500 2252). Over almost all this distance, it forms the boundary between the parishes of Madderty and Findo Gask (to the S) and Methven and Fowlis Wester (to the N).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 1996.
