The Finlaystone Timber Ponds to the west of Glasgow. Stretching from Langbank to Port Glasgow, these enclosures, formed by driving wooden stakes into the mud on the foreshore, date from the early to mid-18th Century and were used to store the timber needed to construct wooden vessels in the early days of commercial shipbuilding on the Clyde.

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