Lock 19

Looking south - downstream - from Lock 19.

Lock 19 Scott’s Mills

The limestone blocks that form the walls at Scott’s Mills were hand hewn by masons 150 years ago.  This is one of the earliest locks on the Trent Severn WaterWay (1843) and was named after Adam Scott who settled here from Edinburgh earlier in the 19th Century.  He built a lumber mill and - one might say true-to-his-roots - a distillery.  A large group of Irish settlers arrived a few years later (1825) and what had been Scott’s Plains eventually became Peterborough.  Although this lock is at the south end of the city, one of the largest on the entire WaterWay, there is nice parkland on the downstream side and a lot of open water all the way downstream to Hastings, nearly 40 miles away.  You can easily walk to local stores but if you want downtown, you’re better off a little farther north, either in Little Lake (Ashburnham Lock) or at the famous Lift Lock.

Approaching Lock 19 from the downstream side (south)

Lock Statistics on the Landmark Side... note all the trees