Sunday, September 12, 2010

Jura: the Telford Pier


My principal aim on going to Jura was to see and photograph the pier at Lagg, across from Kiells, Knapdale. This was part of a drovers' "road", by which cattle were transported across the Jura Sound from the Western Islands to Knapdale, and thence to the Kilmartin tryst, the Falkirk tryst, and into England.

Thomas Telford, a very capable and famous Scottish civil engineer, designed this pier in the early 1800s. He was also involved in the building of the Crinan Canal.

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