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East Pow
Drain (Period Unassigned)
Site Name East Pow
Classification Drain (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) The Pow; Methven Moss
Canmore ID 100184
Site Number NO02SW 96
NGR NO 0085 2361
NGR Description From NO 0085 2361 to NO 0499 2457
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100184
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Methven
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SW 96 0085 2361 to 0499 2457
See also NO02SE 154. For Pow Water (NO 0065 2374 and 0083 2317 to 0000 2311), see NO02SW 95. For Pow Bridge (NO 0497 2456), see NO02SW 79.
East Pow [NAT] (at NO 037 234)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1987.
'(The parish of Methven) slopes from N to S, where it terminates in a narrow plain, the west part of which is a morass, which supplies with peat the neighbouring inhabitants, and from whence two streams take their rise; the most considerable of which runs westward into the Earn, and the other eastward into the Almond: Both have the name of the Pow'.
NSA 1845.
(Parish of Tibbermore). 'East Pow. A small stream, formed by the junction of Methven Burn and a drain, flowing out of Methven Moss, it has an easterly course and emptiesitself into the River Almond close to Lowe's Work'.
(Parish of Methven). 'Pow Water. A large stream which lies in the parish of Methven, and after a circuitous course of several miles falls into the River Earn, its channel is generally an artificial rill.'
Name Book 1866.
The current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map depicts the angular course of what is evidently an artificial drainage channel formed from the East Pow flowing towards the E and NE from Methven Moss (which is centred at NO 011 236) as far as Easter Powside (NO 0572 2460) where the course of the channel becomes less regular and the work of improvement appears to have ceased. The East Pow flows into the River Almond (itself a tributary of the River Tay) at Huntingtower (NN 0689 2563).
It appears probable that this ditch, together with the Pow Water (NN92SW 109, NN92SE 73 and NO02SW 95) 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 some at least of the large farmsteadings that border the flat ground may also be attributed to the same scheme.
The artificial channel of the East Pow appears to run across this map sheet from its origin (at NO 0085 2361) on the E side of Methven Moss to Marlefield (NO 0499 2457). It forms the boundary between the parishes of Tibbermore (to the S) and Methven (to the N).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 1996.
