Description
The monument comprises that length of waterway forming part of the Forth and Clyde Canal falling within the boundary of the civil parish of Falkirk and the boundary of Falkirk District.
The length of the monument is approximately 9 miles (14.5 km) and runs from a point immediately west of the Red Burn Aqueduct (on the west) to immediately west of the M9 Motorway (on the east). The monument includes the entire length of canal in water, the short stretch of canal immediately west of the M9 Motorway now infilled, together with the banks on either side and the towing path running
along one side.
In addition, the monument includes the following canal structures:
[1] The Red Burn Aqueduct;
[2] Locks 19, 18 and 17;
[3] The Underwood Pend Aqueduct;
[4] The Seabegs Pend Aqueduct;
[5] The Bonnybridge Pend Aqueduct;
[6] The Rowan Tree Burn Aqueduct;
[7] The Carmuirs Burn Aqueduct;
[8] The Carmuirs Railway Tunnel Aqueduct;
[9] Lock 16;
[10] Locks 15 - 9;
[11] Locks 8 - 4;
The monument does not include either the Castlecary Road Bridge, or the bridge at Lock 16, or the bridge at Lock 8, or the two railway bridges at Camelon and Orchardhall, or the piped infills at [1] Castlecary, [2] Bonnybridge, [3] Camelon or [4] Bainsford, or any (modern) fences or walls, but does include an area to either side of the area in water in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.