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jeanette somerville

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Overview

 An easy walk along the canal where we shall see an elephant, a mythical serpent with a gold egg in its mouth and learn about the potato prohibition in Glasgow!

this is all before we reach the watering hole at Lock 27!!

 

 

Thursday, 10 July 2025
Start time:
10:00 am
Estimated finish time:
2:30 pm
Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
9.7km / 6.0mi
Ascent:
N/A
Type:
linear

Please contact the leader after 1st July to join this walk

An easy level walk (apart from slight gradient at beginning taken slowly) starting at Buchanan Bus Station and making our way up to the site of the old Pinkston Power Station. We pass Speirs Wharf, old warehouses and mills now developed into luxury flats, the Clay Pits, now a Nature Reserve, Partick Thistle Football Ground before reaching the complicated Lock system at Maryhill.

We have two stops, one at a cafe for a snack/toilet stop and the other a lunch stop at Stockingfield Bridge.

Please contact the leader after 1st July to join this walk on telephone number 0141 737 4403 or by email jinty4672@gmail.com.

There is a limit of 15 people for this walk, however a cancellation list will be held.

Features

  • Refreshments available (Pub/cafe)
  • Toilets available
  • Accessible by public transport
  • Introductory walk
  • No Stiles

Starting point

Grid reference:
NS 59167 65879
Nearest postcode:
G2 3NW
what3words:
baking.tanks.lamps
Start time:
10:00 am

start - Buchanan Bus Station at info board at 9.50 to start walk at 10am finish - Lock 27 - Anniesland - approx 2.30

Finishing point

Grid reference:
NS 55022 69301
Nearest postcode:
G13 1JT
what3words:
soda.club.arch
Estimated finish time:
2:30 pm

Start - Bushanan Bus Sttion G2 3NW Finish - Lock 27 - G13 1JT

Join the Ramblers and enjoy

  • unlimited free access to 50,000 Ramblers group walks
  • a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
  • a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our Walk magazine
  • exclusive discounts from our partners
  • knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking