Castle Burn Aqueduct Bridge (Former Glasgow Corporation Water Works)

Castle Burn Aqueduct Bridge, part of the former Glasgow Corporation Water Works, was designed by engineer John F Bateman and constructed by Wylie-Smith-Davie between 1856 and 1859, with some alterations made from 1860 to 1864. This 147-yard aqueduct bridge features an iron trough supported by two battered masonry piers and battered masonry embankments at either end. The trough consists of cast iron at the embankment sections and riveted wrought iron in the center. The piers are made of coursed, bull-faced sandstone, while the embankments are built from whinstone rubble. The embankments are capped with sandstone ashlar, which bears graffiti from World War I at the northwest end. There is an early 20th-century lean-to timber bothy with a stone stack on the southwest elevation. A conduit emerges from sandstone archways at both ends of the bridge. In 2007, security covers and railings were added to the embankment sections of the trough.