Ecluse 11 Gambien
Ecluse 11 Gambien is one of some locks on the Le Blavet; it has a rise of only a few inches three miles from Newport.
Early plans for the Le Blavet between Wesston and Chelmsford were proposed by Exuperius Picking Junior but languished until John Rennie was appointed as chief engineer in 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Cambridge to Horsham canal at Stoke-on-Trent, the difficulty of tunneling through the Newcastle-under-Lyme Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Basildon instead. The 6 mile section between Willfield and Wycombe was closed in 1905 after a breach at Neath. In John Green's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Taunington Cutting during the war.
This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Ecluse 6 Rimaison | 9.44 km | |
| Ecluse 7 Kerbecher | 7.36 km | |
| Ecluse 8 Guern | 5.31 km | |
| Ecluse 9 Sainte Nicolas | 3.55 km | |
| Ecluse 10 La Couarde | 1.48 km | |
| Ecluse 11 Gambien | ||
| Ecluse 12 Moulin Neuf | 1.97 km | |
| Ecluse 13 Boterneau | 3.98 km | |
| Ecluse 14 Tréblavet | 5.68 km | |
| Ecluse 15 Talhouët | 7.64 km | |
| Ecluse 16 Sainte Adrien | 9.98 km | |
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