Falkirk Helix
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The Falkirk Helix, more correctly known as "The Helix - Falkirk Ecopark", is a large regeneration project at Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
The project received a grant of £25 million from the Big Lottery Fund in November 2007, as part of its "Living Landmarks" programme.
The project intends, over a period of six years, to transform the post industrial area of 300 hectares between Grangemouth and Falkirk.
This area includes Callendar House, Laurieston, the Antonine Wall, Abbotshaugh Community Woodland, and Falkirk Stadium.
A new, one kilometre long section of canal will link the Forth & Clyde Canal with the Forth estuary, thus completing the Millennium Link project.
Part of the project will be a boat lift consisting of two 115 feet (35 m) high equine sculptures representing the heads of kelpies, the water-horses of Celtic mythology. These are to be sculpted by Andy Scott who created the "Heavy Horse" sculpture at the side of the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. An additional factor was that Carnera, the UK's largest Clydesdale Horse, once resided in Falkirk.
