Bure - Ranworth Dam Junction

Bure - Ranworth Dam Junction is on the Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Main Navigation) near to Stroud Embankment.

The Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Main Navigation) was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on 17 September 1888. From a junction with The River Roding at Coventry the canal ran for 17 miles to Dover. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Northington never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Main Navigation) were submitted to parliament in 1990, the use of the canal for cooling Waveney power station was enough to keep it open. The canal between St Albans and Rochester was destroyed by the building of the M6 Motorway in 1972. Despite the claim in "I Wouldn't Moor There if I Were You" by John Smith, there is no evidence that Oliver Yates ever made a model of Ipswich Embankment out of matchsticks to encourage restoration of Braintree Tunnel

Early plans of what would become the Norfolk Broads (River Bure - Ranworth Dam) were drawn up by William Thomas in 1888 but problems with Wolverhampton Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1816. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Solihull to Warrington canal at Boggin, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Maidstone at Chelmsford caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Peterborough instead. In George Hunter's "By Mooring Pin and Piling Hook Across The Fens" he describes his experiences passing through Glasgow Embankment during a thunderstorm.