page_title: Forth and Clyde Canal
section_title: Locks
hierarchical_section_title: Forth and Clyde Canal / Locks
caption_attribution_description: English: Bowling Basin, on the Forth and Clyde Canal at Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, looking towards the sea lock and the River Clyde.
context_page_description: The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowed navigation from Edinburgh on the east coast to the port of Glasgow on the west coast. The canal is 35 miles long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow.
  Successful in its day, it suffered as the seagoing vessels were built larger and could no longer pass through. The railway age further impaired the success of the canal, and in the 1930s decline had ended in dormancy. The final decision to close the canal in the early 1960s was made due to maintenance costs of bridges crossing the canal exceeding the revenues it brought in. However, subsidies to the rail network were also a cause for its decline and the closure ended the movement of the east-coast Forth River fishing fleets across the country to fish the Irish Sea.
context_section_description: There are 39 locks on the Forth & Clyde Canal, as follows:
  1 – New River Carron Sea Lock (The Helix Canal Extension – beyond The Kelpies)
  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 – Allandale 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.scottishcanals.co.uk
caption: At Bowling the canal widens to a basin at the sea lock to the River Clyde.
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