Forth and Clyde Canal - Locks

Locks

There are 39 locks on the Forth & Clyde Canal, as follows:

  • 1 - ?
  • 2 - Basin Moorings (Sea Lock)
  • 3 - Carron Cut Lock
  • 4 - Abbotshaugh Lock
  • 5 - Bainsford Lock
  • 6 - Grahamston Iron Works Lock
  • 7 - Merchiston Lock
  • 8 - Merers Lock
  • 9 - Camelon Railway Lock
  • 10 - Camelon Lock
  • 11 - Rosebank Lock
  • 12 - Camelon Lock No. 12
  • 13 - Camelon Lock No. 13
  • 14 - Camelon Lock No. 14
  • 15 - Falkirk Wheel
  • 16 - Falkirk Bottom Lock No. 16
  • 17 - Underwood Lock No. 17
  • 18 - Allendale Lock No. 18
  • 19 - Castlecary Lock No. 19
  • 20 - Wyndford Lock No. 20 (SUMMIT LEVEL)
  • 21 - Maryhill Top Lock No. 21 (SUMMIT LEVEL)
  • 22 - Maryhill Lock
  • 23 - Maryhill Lock
  • 24 - Maryhill Lock
  • 25 - Maryhill Bottom Lock No. 25
  • 26 - Kelvindale (Temple Lock No. 26)
  • 27 - Temple Lock No. 27
  • 28 - Cloberhill Top Lock No. 28
  • 29 - Cloberhill Middle Lock No. 29
  • 30 - Cloberhill Bottom Lock No. 30
  • 31 - Cloberhill Lock No. 31
  • 32 - Cloberhill Lock No. 32
  • 33 - Boghouse Top Lock No. 33
  • 34 - Boghouse Middle Lock No. 34
  • 35 - Boghouse Lower Lock. 35
  • 36 - No. 36
  • Drop Lock - Dalmuir Drop Lock (constructed recently to take navigation below bridge)
  • 37 - Old Kilpatrick
  • 38 - Dalnottar Lock No. 37
  • 39 - Bowling Lock No. 38

The overall ruling dimensions are length: 68 feet 7 inches (20.90 m); beam: 19 feet 9 inches (6.02 m); draught: 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m); headroom: 9 feet 1 inch (2.77 m), but at the western end larger vessels may use the Bowling basin.

  • Data sourced from www.waterscape.com

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