Woodcockdale Stables (c) Historic Environment Scotland

This was the canal's stables and workers' cottages, they were built around 1820. Above the stables there was storage for hay and grain. The horses for the fast passenger boats were changed and rested at regular intervals along the canal. The stabling coincides roughly with the passenger fare stages on the canal which are shown by 3 stage marker stones on the towpath, roughly 13 km apart, at Ratho, Winchburgh and close to here at the Avon Aqueduct.

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