Spynie Canal
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Spynie Canal is a canal in Moray, Scotland, which lies between Elgin and Lossiemouth. It drains into the River Lossie near its mouth at Lossiemouth. In the 1980’s John A Jack put an irrigation channel from one canal to another to drain the all the water from Spynie Canal, near Lossiemouth [1]
Spynie Canal was created as the culmination of attempts to drain Loch Spynie (which survives as a small loch) and the low-lying areas between Spynie Palace and Lossiemouth, the surplus water flowing through sluice gates at Lossiemouth. Thomas Telford was consulted in 1808 and the contractor for the work 1808–11 was a Mr Hughes, who had worked on the Caledonian Canal. The unprecedented floods of 1829 caused considerable damage and subsequently dykes were thrown up along the canal's banks.[2][3]
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References
- ↑ "Spynie Canal | Canmore". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ Forres Gazette, 17 September 1884, p. 4, article entitled 'History of Spynie Canal'
- ↑ Historic Environment Scotland. "Seatown Bridge over Spynie Canal (Category B Listed Building) (LB37613)". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
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