Fast Facts!
With the Scottish canals on your doorstep, improve your knowledge and check out these fascinating facts!
With the Scottish canals on your doorstep, improve your knowledge and check out these fascinating facts!
There are five Scottish canals, together making 137 linear miles of waterway network:
60 miles - Caledonian Canal
9 miles - Crinan Canal
35 miles - Forth & Clyde Canal
2 miles - Monkland Canal
31 miles - Union Canal
Between them, the canals contain 7,766 ML (megalitres) of water
The Scottish canals are supplied by 19 reservoirs, holding a total of 18,304 ML of water
We have the navigation rights to four lochs, including Loch Ness
We are guardians of:
1,500 hectares of land and water
90 locks
98 road bridges
77 accommodation bridges
50 foot bridges
8 railway bridges
2 towpath bridges
Over 22 million people visit the Scottish canals each year
The world's first - and only - rotating boat lift is The Falkirk Wheel , which links the Union and Forth & Clyde Canals.
The Falkirk Wheel is 35 metres tall, the equivalent of 8 double decker buses stacked on top of each other!