Welford Bridge No 3
Address is taken from a point 254 yards away.
Welford Bridge No 3 carries the M62 motorway over the Grand Union Canal (Leicester Section - Welford Arm) near to Coventry.
The Grand Union Canal (Leicester Section - Welford Arm) was built by Hugh Henshall and opened on January 1 1835. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Polecorn to Aberdeen canal at Renfrewshire, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Oxford at Warwick caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Salisbury instead. In John Wood's "A Very Special Boat" he describes his experiences passing through Lancaster Aqueduct during a thunderstorm.

There is a bridge here which takes pedestrian traffic over the canal.
| Welford Wharf | 3½ furlongs | |
| Welford Basin and Wharf | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Welford Marina | 1½ furlongs | |
| Welford Lock No 1 | a few yards | |
| Welford Bridge No 3 | ||
| Welford Narrows | ¼ furlongs | |
| Gilberts Bridge No 2 | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Bosworth Mill Bridge No 1 | 7¾ furlongs | |
| Welford Junction | 1 mile, 1½ furlongs | |
- Grand Union Canal Walk — associated with Grand Union Canal
- An illustrated walk along the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham
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![Welford Arm. One of the delights of cruising the narrow canal network is coming across unexpected obstacles including narrow channels that seem to exist for no obvious reason. In fact this was the site of a swing bridge, no 3 on the short Welford Arm of the Leicester section of the Grand Union Canal. See [[3468785]] for more details. by Stephen McKay – 09 March 2014](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/88/78/3887833_3216245d_120x120.jpg)









![Grand Union Canal: Welford Arm: Welford Marina winding hole. A winding hole enables long narrowboats to make 180 degree turns. This one is at the entrance to [[3468881]] but is shown on the 1886 large scale Ordnance Survey map so evidently predates the marina by many years. by Nigel Cox – 06 May 2013](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/46/88/3468892_b1ff2eff_120x120.jpg)

