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Latitude: 55.9298 / 55°55'47"N
Longitude: -4.482 / 4°28'55"W
OS Eastings: 245032
OS Northings: 673529
OS Grid: NS450735
Mapcode National: GBR 0Q.ZF2D
Mapcode Global: WH3NS.36ZZ
Plus Code: 9C7QWGH9+W5
Entry Name: Canal House Basin, Bowling Basin, Forth And Clyde Canal
Listing Name: Bowling, Lower Canal Basin and Entrance
Listing Date: 24 April 1991
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 353011
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18844
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Forth And Clyde Canal, Bowling Basin, Canal House Basin
ID on this website: 200353011
Location: Old Kilpatrick
County: West Dunbartonshire
Electoral Ward: Dumbarton
Parish: Old Kilpatrick
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure Canal basin
Opened 1790 by Forth and Clyde Canal Company, modified circa 1820.
BASIN: irregularly shaped basin with masonry walls with heavy copes. At W side lock (circa 1820) down to Bowling Harbour, recently regated, and in SW corner chamber of original lock into River Clyde, now blocked off at sea end.
Bowling, original west end of Forth and Clyde, became an important trans-shipment point from canal to larger sea-going vessels. Group comprises swing bridge with associated viaduct; upper basin, lock keepers' houses; bascule bridge and customs house.
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