Avon Aqueduct

The Avon Aqueduct is a safe navigable aqueduct that conveys the Union Canal over the River Avon, close Linlithgow, Scotland. The reservoir conduit was worked to a plan by Hugh Baird, with exhortation from Thomas Telford, pair with the water passages at Slateford and Lin's Mill, with which it shares its design. Telford was not persuaded that the stone curves were important related to the iron trough, however Baird utilized both on each of the three noteworthy aqueducts. Construction was completed by Messrs. Fainthearted, Whitaker and Nowell somewhere in the range of 1819 and 1821, their achievement in building a stone scaffold over the River Ouse making their delicate for the agreement "by a wide margin the most qualified".

The reservoir conduit straddles the fringe between the West Lothian and Falkirk Council zones, so has two Historic Scotland listings. The reservoir conduit is a classification A recorded building. The Barton Aqueduct of 1761, and ensuing waterway reservoir conduits in the United Kingdom, utilized extensive amounts of brick work and pudding to get watertightness. After the accomplishment of The Iron Bridge in 1789, in any case, cast press was utilized by Telford on water systems, for example, Chirk and Pontcysyllte. Aqueducts worked in the early piece of the 19^th century utilize either puddle mud or an iron trough in no specific pattern. The Avon Aqueduct utilizes an iron trough to accomplish watertightness, and also containing the outward weight of the water, enabling it to be of more thin development than a simply stone water passage, for example, the Kelvin Aqueduct.