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Woodhall Burn [Woodhall Terrace W Inlet 1]

Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.

Culvert inlet in the woodlands south of Greenock Road, Port Glasgow.

Originally (before 1857), Woodhall Burn ran NE to a small bridge or culvert under the Glasgow Road east of Broadfield Lodge. The western culvert inlet was on the site of the southern edge of an earlier large ornamental pond associated with the designed landscape around Woodhall Mansion, a Victorian mansion house [now demolished, built c. 1866 for engineer and shipbuilder Thomas Blackwood]. Later (c. 1920), the pond was filled in and the site was used to construct Woodhall Terrace, two rows of red sandstone tenements [also now demolished].

The culvert was probably constructed in the 1920s when the pond was infilled site was cleared to build the now demolished tenements of Woodhall Terrace. The rest of the Woodhall estate was built on inthe 1930s. The culvert passed under the sandstone tenements and Greenock Road before emerging from the grassy bank north of the road further to the east. It is not clear if the original post Victorian culvert still exists or if it was rebuilt following the demolition of the tenements but the downstream section of the burn still emerges at the eastern outfall from the pond.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The WoodhallBurn once rose southwest of the former Park Farm [near what is now Arran Avenue, on the site of the current Port Glasgow Community Campus andformer curling pond at Woodside] but the upper section of the burn has disappeared (probably incorporated into the road drainage). The current rising is in the woods north of Mansion Avenue (north of Old Greenock Road). The upper part of the avenue is closed to cars and once formed a driveway to the long demolished Mansion house.

Hydrographic Feeds: Woodhall Burn

Hydrographic Resurgences: Woodhall Burn