Union Canal topographic map
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Name: Union Canal topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Location: Union Canal, Falkirk, Scotland, EH11 1HL, United Kingdom (55.91628 -3.84183 56.00172 -3.20805)
Average elevation: 136 m
Minimum elevation: -3 m
Maximum elevation: 564 m
Canal commences from the sixteenth lock of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, about two miles west of Falkirk, in the county of Sterling , whence it takes an eastwardly course on the south side of the above-mentioned town, by some collieries; thence, through Black Hill Tunnel, and across the Glen Water, on which stream, at a short distance to the southward, is constructed a considerable reservoir. Its line hence is by Brighton Freestone Quarries, and about a mile north from Park Hill Colliery, to the Avon River, over which there is an aqueduct conveying the canal at an elevation of 80 feet above the surface of the river. The canal here enters the county of Linlithgow, and passes within a mile and a half on the south side of its capital, to Craighton House, where its course is more southerly and circuitous, to the River Almond, near Clifton House, where it crosses into Edinburghshire, by means of an aqueduct. Its course hence is by Ratho House, and across Leith River, to the city of Edinburgh, where it terminates by a basin at the Lothian Road, about half a mile south-west of the castle. The length of the canal is thirty miles , the depth of water 5 feet , and is on one level from Edinburgh to its western extremity, where it falls 110 feet , in one series of locks, into the Forth and Clyde Canal.
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