East meets West - Duchray Bridge Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/26/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

I was fascinated by the fact that the water going to Glasgow and the West crossed over the Duchray Water here by an aqueduct.. The Duchray Water becomes the Forth at Aberfoyle, travelling East to Edinburgh on its way to the sea.


The aqueduct carries Glasgow's water supply by gravity alone from Loch Katrine to the reservoirs in Milngavie.

The use of Loch Katrine to supply Glasgow has its origins in Victorian times. In the early part of the 19th Century, a mere 30 public wells – and a handful of private ones – provided the city’s only sources of water.It was transported in large barrels by horse and cart and sold to the public in small basins or stoups, at a halfpenny a stoup. After thousands died in two cholera epidemics in 1838 and 1848, a BiII was introduced to Parliament to create the Loch Katrine Water Supply Scheme and place the provision of water under municipal control. The resulting supply system took three and half years to complete and involved the construction of a dam on the loch, 26 miles of aqueduct, a similar length of trunk mains, 46 miles of distribution pipes and the Mugdock storage reservoir at Milngavie. Queen Victoria herself officially opened the scheme – seen as the engineering marvel of its day – on 14 October 1859. The system of filtration used in the treatment works during recent years did not differ greatly from the one constructed in Victorian times.


This bridge can be accessed from the Red cycle route from Aberfoyle or from the parking at Kinlochard. From here it takes about 20 minutes by mountainbike.

Cache is a small lock & lock container * Congratulations to the search dog for FTF *

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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