Red Burn Aqueduct
Red Burn Aqueduct carries a footpath over the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) between Livercroft and Kirklees.
The Act of Parliament for the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) was passed on January 1 1835 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. Orginally intended to run to Trafford, the canal was never completed beyond Braintree. Expectations for pottery traffic to Edinburgh never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the use of the canal for cooling Bernigo power station was enough to keep it open. The one mile section between Wesshampton and Stockton-on-Tees was closed in 1888 after a breach at Sandwell. In Peter Harding's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Willley Embankment during a thunderstorm.

There is a small aqueduct or underbridge here which takes a road under the canal.
| Underwood Lock No 17 | 1 mile, 2¼ furlongs | |
| Castlecary Lock No 18 | 5¾ furlongs | |
| Castlecary Lock No 19 | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Castlecary Bridge | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Cumbernauld Road Bridge | 1½ furlongs | |
| Red Burn Aqueduct | ||
| Wyndford Bridge No 14 | 5 furlongs | |
| Wyndford Lock No 20 | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Wyndford Lock Narrows | 6 furlongs | |
| Wyndford Lock Winding Hole | 1 mile, 4¾ furlongs | |
| Craigmarloch Basin | 2 miles, 7½ furlongs | |
- Youtube — associated with Forth and Clyde Canal
- The official reopening of the canal
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In the direction of River Carron - Forth and Clyde Canal Junction
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![Red Burn from canal path. Compare with Spring photo [[6419363]] by Jim Smillie – 22 June 2023](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/07/52/26/7522650_b1d9319e_120x120.jpg)
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![Bonny Water and Red Burn confluence. View from the southern bank of the river. As seems to be common in these parts the name of the minor tributary prevails.See also [[2351515]] for historical information regarding Auchincloch Burn/Bonny Water. by Robert Murray – 09 April 2011](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/35/15/2351507_2c730956_120x120.jpg)







![County Line. As described in [[2351454]] the water filled ditch is the former course of the Red Burn and even though its course was diverted the parish and county boundaries remained unchanged following nature's boundary rather than man's. by Robert Murray – 09 April 2011](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/35/15/2351500_b809cff4_120x120.jpg)




![Auchincloch Burn and county boundary. The fence post to the left is Falkirk-shire (or whatever it is called) and the tree on the right of the barely discernable ditch is North Lanarkshire.The aforementioned mostly filled in ditch between the two is the visible remains of the old course of the Red Burn as it was here that the natural confluence took place until the Resident Engineer Robert Mackell building the Forth & Clyde canal diverted the course of the Red Burn in 1770 as described in [[2351082]]. by Robert Murray – 09 April 2011](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/35/14/2351454_dc8f9026_120x120.jpg)








