Canal Bank reflections

Reflections along the Pitfour Canal - an ill fated and expensive project by James Ferguson, the 3rd Laird of Pitfour to link his estate to the sea near Peterhead - 10 miles distant. This scheme was conceived around 1800 inorder to make it easier to transport sand and shells inland from the shore at St Fergus to be used to fertilise fields.The scheme encountered many obstacles and objections from mill and landowners so that only short sections such as this one at Pitfour were ever dug. The development of turnpike roads made the canal obsolete before it could be completed.