Pollok Country Park
Wooded riverside estate park with a historic weir, water-powered sawmill and Victorian stables.
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This guide to Pollok Country Park in Glasgow leaves the lawns behind for the White Cart Water, where an old weir, a brick sawmill and a small power station sit by the river. It follows how the estate made the water do its work, from a waterwheel to the turbines that replaced it. Along the way you'll meet an Edinburgh engineering firm and a building dressed up to look like a cottage. Best heard standing on the riverbank beside the weir.
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