Feature: NJ81SE0073 - 17 FETACH WALK, DYCE
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Canal milestone 7 1/2 (7.5 miles from Aberdeen), no longer in its original position, although it has not been moved far. This one is a granite column, 0.5 m high and 0.3 m in diameter. The milestones began their counting at zero from Aberdeen harbour. It stood along the canal to the south of Liddell Drive. Opened in 1805, the Aberdeenshire canal provided better transport between Aberdeen and the rural countryside. The distances along the canal were marked in milestones and half-milestones. It carried goods and passengers between Waterloo Quay in Aberdeen and Port Elphinstone, near Inverurie. The loads were pulled on barges by two or three horses harnessed in tandem. The towpath lay on the right bank of the canal, if travelling in the direction of Port Elphinstone. On the opposite side were the wharves for mooring boats. The canal closed in 1854, having been superseded by the Great North of Scotland Railway, which was in part built upon the line of the canal. Milestone 7 is a Scheduled Monument.