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Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam

A Category B Listed Building in Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.6984 / 56°41'54"N

Longitude: -4.948 / 4°56'52"W

OS Eastings: 219596

OS Northings: 760185

OS Grid: NN195601

Mapcode National: GBR GC50.DBR

Mapcode Global: WH2HJ.ZW0S

Plus Code: 9C8QM3X2+9R

Entry Name: Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam

Listing Name: Kinlochleven Village Water Supply Dam (Near West Highland Way)

Listing Date: 31 January 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 345869

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12928

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200345869

Location: Lismore and Appin

County: Highland

Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan

Parish: Lismore And Appin

Traditional County: Argyllshire

Tagged with: Dam Architectural structure

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Description

P W Meik (Thomas Meik and Sons), chief engineer, Alfred H Roberts, resident engineer, Sir W Murray Morrison, manager and technical advisor, Sir John Jackson Ltd, principal contractor. Circa 1909. Dam of mass concrete gravity construction 440 feet long and 55 feet high (in 1911 "at present only carried up to half this height").5:1 mass concrete with 4:1 fine concrete face. Pronounced batter to N with modern railings to part.24" diam cast-iron upstand tower just S of dam with original railed platform and sluice mechanism.

Statement of Interest

"A fine example of solid sound homogenous work" (Roberts). This supplied a reservoir near the village and is presumbly the second dam (after the Blackwater) in Britain to have been built without masonry cladding.

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