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Bridgwater Large Dock

 
Bridgwater Marina, The Docks, Sedgemoor TA6, United Kingdom
 
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Bridgwater Large Dock is a minor waterways place on the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal between North Newton Bridge No 15 (6 miles and 1¼ furlongs and 3 locks to the south) and Bridgwater and Taunton Canal - River Parrett Junction (Junction of Bridgwater and Taunton Canal with River Parrett) (1¼ furlongs and 1 lock to the east).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of North Newton Bridge No 15 is Bridgwater Lock No 6 (Entrance to Bridgwater Dock. End of the canal); ½ furlongs away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Bridgwater and Taunton Canal - River Parrett Junction is Northgate Bridge (A bascule bridge); ¾ furlongs away.

Mooring here is unrated.

You can wind here.

 
 
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Amenities nearby at Bridgwater Lock No 6

 Cashpoint
 
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self-operated pump-out
boatyard pump-out
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[Bridgwater] Bridgwater is a large historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. Its population currently stands at around 35,886 as of 2011. Bridgwater [Port of Bridgwater] Hinkley Point in Bridgwater Bay, and parts of the rivers Parrett (to Bridgwater), River Brue and River Axe. Although no ships now dock in the town, in [Bridgwater and Taunton Canal] a basin at Huntworth, to the east of Bridgwater, but was later extended to a floating harbour at Bridgwater Docks on its western edge. Financially this [Bertha (drag boat)] chains anchored on the quay. Bertha worked in Bridgwater Docks, after the connection of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal to the River Parrett, from 1844 [River Parrett] custom house was sited at Bridgwater, on West Quay, and a dry dock, launching slips and a boat yard on East Quay. Bridgwater built some 167 ships, the [History of Somerset] sited at Bridgwater, on West Quay; and a dry dock, launching slips and a boat yard on East Quay. The river was navigable, with care, to Bridgwater Town Bridge [Bridgwater North railway station] traffic was diverted over a new connection to the GWR docks branch which continued until 1962. Bridgwater railway station remains open on the Bristol to Taunton [Bristol Harbour] significant role in the slave trade. In the 18th century, the docks in Liverpool grew larger and so increased competition with Bristol for the tobacco trade [Somerset] national average. Bridgwater was developed during the Industrial Revolution as the area's leading port. The River Parrett was navigable by large ships as far [North Petherton] ISBN 0-7153-4176-6 "Bridgwater & Taunton Canal". Moorings & Moor. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012. "Brdgwater Docks — photographic
 
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