Loch Thom
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Loch Thom is a reservoir which since 1827 has provided a water supply to the town of Greenock in Inverclyde, Scotland. It is named after the civil engineer Robert Thom who designed the scheme which cr
Loch Thom, with Hillside Hill to the right.
View from Hillside Hill down to compensation reservoir and Cornalees, with Loch Thom itself further back.
Compensation reservoir and Cut Centre at Cornalees, in front of Hillside Hill.
Near the start of The Cut, grid reference NS242719, looking northwest towards Shielhill Farm and Dunrod Hill.
Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 5th Baronet. Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire between 1822 and 1825.
Loch Thom
…prepared a scheme to turn this into a reservoir and create the aqueduct which became known as The Cut. The Shaws Water Joint Stock Company named by Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, 5th Baronet and friends, which was incorporated on 10 June 1825 with capital of £30,000. The scheme was officially opened on 16 April 1827. On that day a grain…
Sir Michael Shaw Stewart 5th Baronet wearing his hunting jacket from the Royal Caledonian Hunt
The Shaw-Stewart Mausoleum, The Old Churchyard Inverkip