Elnors Swing Bridge No 6
Address is taken from a point 476 yards away.
Elnors Swing Bridge No 6 carries a footpath over the Grantham Canal five kilometres from Eastbury.
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 swing bridge here which takes a footpath over the canal.
| Footbridge No 3a (Grantham Canal) | 5½ furlongs | |
| Radcliffe Road Bridge No 4A | 3 furlongs | |
| Radcliffe Road Bridge No 4 | 2¾ furlongs | |
| Clarks Swing Bridge No 5 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Bridgford Lock No 2 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Elnors Swing Bridge No 6 | ||
| Footbridge (Lingmell Close) | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Gamston Lock No 3 | 1½ furlongs | |
| Footbridge (Ashness Close) | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Gamston Lings Bar Road Bridge No 6A | 4 furlongs | |
| Tollerton Road Bridge No 7 | 4¾ furlongs | |
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![Clarks Bridge [no 5], Grantham Canal. A fixed bridge has replaced the original swingbridge. The Grantham Canal Society is actively working to restore the canal, but it will be a long process. by Christine Johnstone – 14 March 2025](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/01/01/8010111_89d3ea12_120x120.jpg)



















![The Willow Tree. Complete with willow tree! The tree is hidden on the other photo that we have of this pub [[947143]]. by David Lally – 27 January 2010](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/68/02/1680205_b1e88af0_120x120.jpg)
![Weeping willow by Bridgford Lock [no 2]. Spring is coming along the Grantham Canal. The housing is in Swindale Close, Gamston. The Grantham Canal Society is actively working to restore the canal, but it will be a long process and this section may remain unnavigable. by Christine Johnstone – 14 March 2025](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/01/01/8010132_784c215c_120x120.jpg)





![The cill, Bridgford Lock [no 2], Grantham Canal. The cill looks like a masonry step. It marks the level of the canal bed above the lock. The top gates would have fitted above the cill, approximately where the concrete dam is now. The Grantham Canal Society is actively working to restore the canal, but it will be a long process and this section may remain unnavigable. by Christine Johnstone – 14 March 2025](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/08/01/01/8010135_80784fe4_120x120.jpg)