Catrine water project secures £660,000 lottery heritage grant
28 NovemberGreat news for Catrine! A £660,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has been secured to restore the 200-year-old water system at the historic cotton mill near the town.
The site at Catrine dates from 1787 and consists of a weir, five reservoirs or "Voes", a sluice gate, a fish pass and a 450m-long tunnel. The grant will secure the future of the system, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and had been in danger of collapse.
The £660,000 grant completes the £4m funding package aiming to restore the system and bring other parts of the site back into public use. The Catrine water system was constructed by landowner Claud Alexander and textiles entrepreneur David Dale as part of a cotton mill complex.
You can read more on this story here on the BBC website.
You can see more here on the Catrine Community Trust website.
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