2015

NS4673 : Path beside the Forth and Clyde Canal

taken 8 years ago, near to Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Path beside the Forth and Clyde Canal
Path beside the Forth and Clyde Canal
The path is the one that is shown, viewed in the opposite direction, in NS4673 : Path beside the Forth and Clyde Canal. In the present picture, the Erskine Bridge can be seen in the distance. Not far ahead, a turning to the left leads to Gavinburn Street; where that street meets the main road through Old Kilpatrick, there is an old well and its associated garden: see NS4673 : Site of St Patrick's well and NS4673 : Garden at site of St Patrick's Well.
Forth and Clyde Canal

The Forth and Clyde Canal links Bowling on the Firth of Clyde with Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth. It allowed goods to be transported between the east and west coasts, and to be exported from Glasgow to Europe or from Edinburgh to America, without taking the hazardous route round the north of Scotland or the longer route via the English Channel.

It is 56 kilometres (35 miles) long and has 39 locks, and the highest point is 47 metres (155 feet) above sea level. Originally there were 33 drawbridges, ten large aqueducts and 33 smaller ones.

It was designed by the engineer John Smeaton and opened in 1790, after over 20 years of planning and construction.

With time seagoing vessels became too large to pass through the locks, and competition from the railways in the 19th century led to it being more or less disused, and it was closed in 1963.

However it was reopened as a Millennium project in 2001, and linked to the Union Canal by the Falkirk Wheel.


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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 16 October, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 24 October, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 4612 7300 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:55.5228N 4:27.8604W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 4609 7301
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East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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