Millennium Link
The Millennium Link is one of the biggest engineering projects ever undertaken by British Waterways. The Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal were originally joined by a flight of locks. The Millennium Link project replaced the locks with an ingenious and unique boat lift, the Falkirk Wheel.
The project launch was in October 1994, and it received a grant of £32 million from the Millennium Commission; the total cost of the project was £78 million.
Work started in 1999.
Partners in the Millennium Link project
- City of Edinburgh Council
- East Dunbartonshire Council
- Falkirk Council
- Glasgow City Council
- North Lanarkshire Council
- West Dunbartonshire Council
- West Lothian Council
- Millennium Commission
- Millennium Forest for Scotland
- British Waterways
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Central Scotland Countryside Trust
- East of Scotland European Partnership
- Strathclyde European Partnership
- Scottish Enterprise
- Edinburgh Canal Society
- Ratho Union Canal Society Association - now defunct
- Falkirk and District Canal Society based at Camelon, Falkirk
- Paisley Canal and Waterways Society
- Scottish Inland Waterways Association
- Forth and Clyde Canal Society
- Linlithgow Union Canal Society
- Seagull Trust
- List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom
Falkirk Ecopark
A follow-up project known as the Falkirk Helix with plans for a new large boatlift named The Kelpies.
See also
References
External links
- British Waterways Scotland page on the Millennium Link
- Official website, now defunct, but archived by James Gentles
- Official site of the Falkirk Wheel
- Falkirk Helix official website
Coordinates: 56°0′0″N 3°50′26″W / 56.00000°N 3.84056°W
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