Stop 15 of 33
The Dam Wall
Golf is played next to this path. On hearing "Fore", cover your head and turn away from the direction of play. Golf safety →
The loch that lay in this part of the park from the 15th to the 18th century did not form by itself. It was held in place by a dam, and the wall that held it still survives.
You can walk along the top of it. It is an early and little-known piece of civil engineering — built to create and maintain a royal water feature, and standing long after the water it held was drained away. A lade, or artificial watercourse, carried water off to the east.
Once you know it is there, the line of the wall is easy to pick out; most people walk it without realising what it is.
Know more about this place, or have a photograph or memory of it to share? Tell us →