Falkirk Base
| Based at the Falkirk Wheel, one of the most stunning backdrops anywhere on the canals, we are ideally sited half way between Edinburgh and Glasgow.The Falkirk Wheel is 115 feet high – the equivalent height of eight double decker buses and offers visitors a real treat. It is 115 feet wide and 100 feet long. The wheel will lift loads of 600 tonnes (300 at each end) and stands in a 330 feet wide circular basin with moorings for over 20 boats.Before re-development, the site was a deep open cast pit left behind by mining which ended in the early 1980s. The total project cost was approximately £17 million and work took 22 months. The wheel is designed to last for at least the next 120 years. It is the world’s first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in Britain since the Anderton Boat Lift in Cheshire, which dates from 1875. |  |
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Suggested Routes From Falkirk
1. EDINBURGH & RETURN66 Miles, 6 Locks, 1 Week Cruise, 3 hours per day (BLUE ROUTE) Go up through the wheel and three locks and then travel into Edinburgh on the long, lock-free Union Canal. You will pass over the magnificent Almond Aqueduct and travel through villages such as Linlithgow and Ratho, home of the Edinburgh Canal Centre.
2. GLASGOW & EDINBURGH136 Miles, 14 Locks, 1 Week Cruise, 6 hours per day (GOLD ROUTE) As Edinburgh and return before heading back towards Falkirk, descending the Wheel and joining the Forth and Clyde with it’s locks and swing bridges. Travel through splendid scenery and villages such as Auchinstarry and Kirkintillock, to Cadder Village and on to Glasgow. |
