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Port Dundas Basin

 
Once formed the terminus of the Monkland Canal
Pinkston Watersports Centre, North Canal Bank Street, Glasgow G4 9XP, United Kingdom
 
Information about the place
Port Dundas Basin is a minor waterways place at the end of the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Main Line); past Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance) (Basin next to Firhill Road Stadium, home of Partick Thistle FC) (1 mile and 2¼ furlongs and 2 locks to the northwest).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance) is Middle Wharf Street Footbridge; ¼ furlongs away.

Mooring here is unrated.

You can wind here.

 
 
Amenities

Amenities here

 Tesco Cafe Stores - Glasgow - St Rollox Bus Pk
 Cashpoint
 Cpl Phoenix Service Station Ltd
 Jet
 
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External websites
 Youtube — associated with Forth and Clyde Canal
The official reopening of the canal
 
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In the direction of Stockingfield Junction

Craighall Road Basin2 furlongs and 1 lock away
On this waterway in the direction of Stockingfield Junction
Craighall Road Basin Western Winding Hole2½ furlongs and 1 lock away
On this waterway in the direction of Stockingfield Junction
Applecross Street Basin6¾ furlongs and 2 locks away
On this waterway in the direction of Stockingfield Junction
Luggiebank Road Winding Hole9 miles, 6 furlongs and 2 locks away
Travel to Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Firhill Road Basin) to Firhill Road Basin (northern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Main Line) to Stockingfield Junction, then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) to Luggiebank Road Winding Hole
Auchinstarry Winding Hole15 miles and 2 locks away
Travel to Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Firhill Road Basin) to Firhill Road Basin (northern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Main Line) to Stockingfield Junction, then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) to Auchinstarry Winding Hole
Craigmarloch Basin15 miles, 6¾ furlongs and 2 locks away
Travel to Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Firhill Road Basin) to Firhill Road Basin (northern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Main Line) to Stockingfield Junction, then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) to Craigmarloch Basin
Wyndford Lock Winding Hole17 miles, 1¼ furlongs and 2 locks away
Travel to Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Firhill Road Basin) to Firhill Road Basin (northern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Main Line) to Stockingfield Junction, then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) to Wyndford Lock Winding Hole
Bowling Basin12 miles, ¼ furlongs and 21 locks away
Travel to Firhill Road Basin (southern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Firhill Road Basin) to Firhill Road Basin (northern entrance), then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Port Dundas Branch - Main Line) to Stockingfield Junction, then on the Forth and Clyde Canal (Main Line) to Bowling Basin

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water point
rubbish disposal
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self-operated pump-out
boatyard pump-out
Direction of TV transmitter (From Wolfbane Cybernetic)
 
 
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[Port Dundas] north-west. The Port Dundas terminus was established at One Hundred Acre Hill between 1786 and 1790 and was named after Sir Lawrence Dundas, one of the major [Forth and Clyde Canal] Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow. Successful in its day, it suffered as the seagoing vessels [Stockingfield Junction] November 1775. The branch was completed to Hamiltonhill Basin by November 1777 and to Port Dundas by 1779 upon which date the main line to Bowling was also [Grangemouth] River Forth for canal traffic. After Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet died in 1781 his son Thomas Dundas commissioned the architect Henry Holland to re-plan [List of canal junctions in the United Kingdom] canal system List of canal aqueducts in the United Kingdom List of canal basins in the United Kingdom List of canal locks in the United Kingdom List of [Jubba River] river was the Italian explorer Vittorio Bottego attended by Commander F. G. Dundas British Navy. Bottego and his expedition sailed 640 km (400 miles) of the [Galilee Basin] basin system that contains the Cooper Basin, situated towards the south-west of the Galilee Basin, and the Bowen Basin to the east. The Galilee Basin [Southampton Island] (Inuktitut: Shugliaq) is a large island at the entrance to Hudson Bay at Foxe Basin. One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Southampton [Yonge Street] closed for the day. The intersection of Yonge and Dundas Streets, centred on the plaza at Yonge-Dundas Square, has been closed on occasion to host free [Desjardins Canal] a major port and quickly expanded as a center of trade and commerce. Access to the hinterland through Dundas was still easier as the Dundas Valley offered
 
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Port Dundas - Wikipedia
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