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Glasgow Corporation Waterworks, Mugdock Reservoir, Craigmaddie Lodge, Gates

Gate (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Site Name Glasgow Corporation Waterworks, Mugdock Reservoir, Craigmaddie Lodge, Gates

Classification Gate (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Milngavie Water Treatment Works

Canmore ID 292282

Site Number NS57NE 63.32

NGR NS 56832 75729

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/292282

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Dunbartonshire
  • Parish Baldernock (Bearsden And Milngavie)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Bearsden And Milngavie
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Archaeology Notes

NS57NE 63.32 56832 75729

These gates, with their distinctive designs, are common around both reservoirs allowing pedestrian or vehicular access from outwith the Mugdock and Craigmaddie Reservoir site. These gates area also replicated at the entrance to the new Barrachan water treatment works.

Infomation from Jelle Muylle, engineer carrying out survey of sites and structures of the Glasgow Corporation Loch Katrine Waterworks scheme for RCAHMS, Historic Scotland funded, December 2007.

Activities

Project (8 January 2018 - 9 January 2018)

An archaeological desk-based assessment of the proposed route for a water pipeline. The assessment comprised a walkover survey of the route combined with a map regression exercise and on-line searches of the National Record of the Historic Environment and the Stirling Council Historic Environment Record. The East Dunbartonshire Historic Environment Record is not available on-line.

Information from C Shaw - Guard Archaeology Ltd

OASIS ID: guardarc1-307462

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