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Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm is a section of the Forth and Clyde Canal, an eighteenth-century commercial waterway constructed to connect the North Sea and Atlantic coasts of Scotland. The canal was engineered by John Smeaton and constructed between 1768 and 1790, representing a significant achievement in Scottish industrial transport infrastructure. This particular stretch extends between Kirkintilloch and Auchinstarry Farm in Dunbartonshire, preserving characteristic features of the original canal construction including its bed, banks, and associated structures. The canal operated as a vital commercial route for cargo transport until the mid-twentieth century, and this section remains an important archaeological record of late Georgian canal engineering and Scottish mercantile history.
Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6769. View the official record →
Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm is a section of the Forth and Clyde Canal, an eighteenth-century commercial waterway constructed to connect the North Sea and Atlantic coasts of Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6769.
Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM6769.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Antonine Wall and fort, 130m NE to 375m WSW of Auchendavie Farm (0.7 km), Antonine Wall, N of Whitehill Avenue, Hillhead, Kirkintilloch (1.6 km), Antonine Wall, to N and NE of St Flannan's Church, Cleddans (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Forth and Clyde Canal: Kirkintilloch - Auchinstarry Farm stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.