Monkland Canal
Canal in Scotland
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The Monkland Canal was a 12+1⁄4-mile-long canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course of a long and difficult construction process, it was opened progressively as short sections were... Wikipedia
Start point: Calderbank, near Airdrie
Date closed: 1942
Date of act: 1770
End point: Townhead Basin, Glasgow; (Later connected to the Forth and Clyde Canal by the "cut of junction")
Maximum boat beam: 14 ft 0 in (4.27 m)
Original owner: Monkland Canal Company