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Canal milestone, 5.5 miles. The distances along the canal were marked in milestones and half-milestones and began their counting at zero from Aberdeen harbour. This milestone, like the others that still remain, is a granite column and is 0.45m high and 0.3m in diameter. The inscription bears traces of yellow paint. Its location has been recorded on the 1867-69 Ordnance Survey map and remains in this location today at Stoneywood Terrace. The canal ran east of Stoneywood Road, and crossed Stoneywood Terrace. Here the canal earthworks have been removed and mature trees grow on much of this part. The canal opened in 1805 and transported goods and passengers between Aberdeen and Port Elphinstone, near Inverurie. The canal provided better transport between Aberdeen and the rural countryside. Between 1832-38 some of the goods that travelled along the canal included coal, meal, salt, wood and granite. The loads were pulled on barges by two or three horses harnessed in tandem. Passengers could travel, at the rate of 2 pennies per mile, from Port Elphinstone to the Boat House, just south of St Machar Drive and about two miles from Aberdeen harbour. The canal closed in 1854, having been bought by the Great North of Scotland Railway, which was in part built upon the line of the canal.
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Aberdeen City
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NJ81SE0079 - STONEYWOOD TERRACE, DYCE