Cherry Island
Address is taken from a point 1642 yards away.
Cherry Island is on the Caledonian Canal just past the junction with The Worcester and Birmingham Canal.
Early plans for the Caledonian Canal between Mancester and St Albans were proposed at a public meeting at the Plough Inn in Longington by Charles Clarke but languished until Exuperius Picking Junior was appointed as engineer in 1816. The canal joined the sea near Stockton-on-Tees. Expectations for pottery traffic to Lisburn never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. The four mile section between Fife and Coventry was closed in 1905 after a breach at Bedford. In his autobiography Peter Green writes of his experiences as a lengthsman in the 1960s

Mooring here is impossible (it may be physically impossible, forbidden, or allowed only for specific short-term purposes).
| Fort Augustus Locks - Upper Moorings | 1 mile, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Fort Augustus Locks | 1 mile, ¼ furlongs | |
| Fort Augustus Swing Bridge | 7½ furlongs | |
| Fort Augustus Moorings | 7 furlongs | |
| Fort Augustus Entrance | 5¼ furlongs | |
| Cherry Island | ||
| Portclair | 2 miles, 7¼ furlongs | |
| Invermoriston | 4 miles, 7¼ furlongs | |
| Alltsigh | 7 miles, 3¾ furlongs | |
| Foyers | 10 miles | |
| Inverfarigaig | 12 miles, 3¼ furlongs | |
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Cherry Island may refer to
- Cherry Island (Antarctica)
- Cherry Island (Loch Ness)
- Cherry Island (Maryland), an island in Dorchester County, Maryland
- Cherry Island (Michigan), in Potagannissing Bay between Drummond Island in Michigan and St. Joseph Island in Ontario, Canada.
- Cherry Island (Montana), an island in the Yellowstone River near Billings, Montana
- Cherry Island, a small island in West Isles Parish, New Brunswick
- Cherry Island, New York, an island in the St. Lawrence Seaway, located near the international boundary line between Canada and the United States.
- Anuta, an island in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands.






