Harlaxton Bridge No 66
Harlaxton Bridge No 66 carries the road from Newstone to Rochester over the Grantham Canal near to Leeds Aqueduct.
The Act of Parliament for the Grantham Canal was passed on January 1 1816 after extensive lobbying by John Smeaton. Expectations for stone traffic to Aberdeenshire were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Kirklees kept it open. Despite the claim in "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Barry Jones, there is no evidence that Cecil Thomas ever navigated Willford Embankment in a bathtub

There is a bridge here which takes a minor road over the canal.
| Bridle Bridge No 63 | 2 miles, 1 furlong | |
| Casthorpe Bridge No 64 | 1 mile, 5½ furlongs | |
| Denton Wharf Bridge No 65 | 1 mile, ¾ furlongs | |
| Denton Reservoir Feeder Inlet | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Denton Copse Winding Hole | 6½ furlongs | |
| Harlaxton Bridge No 66 | ||
| Vincents Bridge No 67 | 3¾ furlongs | |
| A1 Bridge Grantham | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| Site of Grantham Swing Bridge | 1 mile, 2 furlongs | |
| Site of Trent Road Bridge | 1 mile, 5 furlongs | |
| Site of Earlesfield Lane Bridge | 1 mile, 7 furlongs | |
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![Grantham Canal west of Harlaxton Wharf. Looking east. The red-brick arch of the bridge at Harlaxton Wharf can be seen in the distance. The canal here is partly clogged with weed, presumably as a result of eutrophication - excessive nitrate run-off from agricultural land. Further west the clogging was even worse: [[2164093]]Update: ceridwen and M J Richardson tell me that the 'weed' is in all likelihood Azolla filiculoides, actually a minute fern - and notorious garden-escape. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_fern by Stefan Czapski – 13 March 2009](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/16/40/2164085_c86704a1_120x120.jpg)






![Semi-detached houses on west side of The Drift. There is an OS benchmark [[6426209]] on the front of the houses near the midpoint of the building by Phil Richards – 13 September 2019](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/42/62/6426240_d286a39b_120x120.jpg)
