Today was not a day for outdoor photography – it was wild, wet and windy, and I struggled to find something to photograph.

Eventually I found myself here, where the River Avon flows under the Jinkabout Bridge.

The journey of the Avon to this point is quite interesting – it seems to start as the Garbethill Burn, near Cumbernauld. It then flows eastwards, passing north of Slamannan, before passing the town of Avonbridge, some 8 km south-south west of where this photograph is taken. After that it continues east to Linlithgow Bridge, passing under the Avongorge bridge and the Avon Aqueduct before it then swings north and west again, managing to find a route to Polmonthill before crossing under the Jinkabout Bridge here and flowing into the Forth.

As for “Jinkabout Bridge”, it appears to be named after the “Jinkabout Mill”, which apparently was a successful mill in the 1860s, but later was left derelict and was demolished in 1933 (https://collections.falkirk.gov.uk/objects/7908/jinkabout-mill-inveravon)