Falkirk Five Trail
Thanks to funding from Falkirk Council, made available through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, we have created a new 5km active travel route around The Falkirk Wheel with community designed art benches and bike racks installed at regular intervals around the trail.
Falkirk Five Trail
The Falkirk Five trail is a new 5km circular route from The Falkirk Wheel via Union Canal, Lock 16 and Forth & Clyde Canal. Â Along the trail you will see six beautifully decorated tiled benches so you can relax, enjoy the sights and sounds, and catch your breath.
To follow the trail, Click here to download a map and follow the Falkirk Five logos along the way.
During 2024, Make It Glasgow ran a series of community engagement workshops with six local groups including Carmuirs Primary, Go Forth & Clyde, Community Youth Action Group Tamfourhill, Larbert Village Primary, Carmuirs Easter Primary and an open public workshop for local residents and visitors to The Falkirk Wheel. The tiles that you will see on each of the benches feature drawings, art and photos created and selected by these groups and they represent people's stories from the local area and their connection to the canal. Â Once the groups had made their designs, Make It Glasgow manufactured the tiles at their Art bothy in Glasgow and sailed them to Falkirk along the Forth & Clyde Canal, much like our predecessors may have done when the canals were used for industrial transport.
This project was made possible through funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
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