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Osborne Place Culvert [Intake]

Osborne Place, West End, Aberdeen City.

Culvert (early 20th Century).

A subterranean section of the Den Burn in Aberdeen's West End, running underground between Blenheim Place and Albert St, sub-parallel to (and briefly under) Osborne Place. Part of the route was formerly the site of the Gilcomston Dam pond (along S side of the original Whitehall Place), as shown on 1901 25" OS map. Whitehall Place has since been realigned, with it's SW section now overlying the site of the dammed pond.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: "Once fed by the waters of the Denburn on its eastward course from Kingswells and Rubislaw Den, the Gilcomston Dam lay between Leadside Road and the present Osborne Place. It was in existence as early as 1673, when it is mentioned in a disposition of sale of surrounding land to the Aberdeen Corporation, and in the sale, the meal mill of Gilcomston is mentioned. The dam was drained and filled in by the Town Council in 1907 as it had become insanitary and a favourite place for drowning cats and dogs." [Silver City Vault]

Given length approx. (Google Earth measurement).

Hydrographic Feeds: Den Burn

Hydrographic Resurgences: Den Burn