Monkland Canal
The Monkland Canal was a 12+1⁄4-mile-long canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course of a long and difficult construction process, it was opened progressively as short sections were completed, from 1771.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Glasgow Queen Street railway station and Buchanan Bus Station.
Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Railway station
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Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line terminals; the larger is Glasgow Central.
Buchanan Bus Station
Bus station
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Buchanan Bus Station is the main bus terminus in Glasgow, Scotland, and is located between the Townhead and Cowcaddens districts on the north eastern side of the city centre.
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Music venue
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Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is a concert and arts venue located in Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned by Glasgow City Council and operated by Glasgow Life, an agency of Glasgow City Council, which also runs Glasgow's City Halls and Old Fruitmarket venue.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cowcaddens and Townhead.
Cowcaddens
Suburb
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Cowcaddens is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It sits directly north of the city centre and is bordered by the newer area of Garnethill to the south-west and Townhead to the east.
Townhead
Suburb
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Townhead is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of Glasgow's oldest areas, and contains two of its major surviving medieval landmarks – Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship.
Glasgow
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Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Monkland Canal
- Type: Canal
- Description: canal in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Monkland Canal from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Monkland Canal” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Monkland Canal”
- Cebuano: “Monkland Canal”
- Dutch: “Monkland Canal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة مونكلاند”
- German: “Monkland Canal”
- Japanese: “モンクランド運河”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monklandkanalen”
- Norwegian: “Monklandkanalen”
- Swedish: “Monkland Canal”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Port Dundas and Blythswood New Town.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Heatherbank Museum of Scial Work and Buchanan Street.
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