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Latitude: 55.9118 / 55°54'42"N
Longitude: -4.3223 / 4°19'20"W
OS Eastings: 254940
OS Northings: 671180
OS Grid: NS549711
Mapcode National: GBR 040.WJ
Mapcode Global: WH3NV.KNZT
Plus Code: 9C7QWM6H+P3
Entry Name: Horse Trough, Mcfarlane Road, Bearsden
Listing Name: Mcfarlane Road, Horse Trough
Listing Date: 25 April 2002
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 396022
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB48602
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200396022
Location: Bearsden
County: East Dunbartonshire
Town: Bearsden
Electoral Ward: Bearsden South
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1897, relocated to present site 1973. Pink and grey marble horse trough. Rectangular basin on shaped plinth inscribed 'UNDER THE AUSPICES OF GLASGOW AND W OF SCOT SPCA 1897' with moulded splash panel over inscribed 'CA CANNY' and additional metal plaque recording relocation (see Notes).
Originally sited at Canniesburn Toll, the horse trough was removed to this site by the former Bearsden Town Council. Provision of drinking troughs and fountains grew more generally as a municipal responsibility in the late 19th century, and was mirrored in rural areas by loacl lairds, or as here by animal welfare activists.
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