Aqueduct below Whinhill Reservoir

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 24 Jul 2017

The channel flowing parallel to and on the near side of the fence seems artificially straight, and it is: it is an aqueduct, shown on the first-edition map, which was surveyed in 1857. It flows from the north-eastern corner of Whinhill Reservoir: Image; see the first end-note for comments. At the centre of this picture, water flows into it from a body of water that is on the other side of the fence, and which is unseen from here (a small part of it can be seen from a distance in Image). The first-edition map labels that body of water "Reservoir (Shaws Waterworks)". Shaws Water Works, as a whole, are described in the second end-note, written by another contributor. Between that old reservoir and Whinhill Reservoir, there used to be some filter beds, centred on Image They first appear on the second-edition map (revised in 1896), but they are long since grassed-over (see Image). The part of the aqueduct that is shown in this picture is just south of a Image, which is much more recent (it dates from after the Second World War). Just below this point, the water in the aqueduct is joined by some other burns, and their combined water, the Carts Burn, flows through a natural and therefore more irregular channel. As the map shows, the area through which it flows is called Auchmountain Glen. For the origins of the name Auchmountain itself, see Image

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