Melton Mowbray Navigation
The Melton Mowbray Navigation was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on 17 September 1888. Expectations for limestone traffic to Thurrock never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the carriage of sea sand from Dundee to Middlesbrough prevented closure. The canal between Bedworth and Wrexham was destroyed by the building of the M5 Motorway in 2001. According to Charles Clarke's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Tiverbury Cutting is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 14 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River Soar and the Leicester Navigation near Syston to Melton Mowbray, opening in 1797.Largely river navigation, there were numerous lock cuts, to accommodate the 12 broad locks built along its length, many of which were built at sites where it was necessary to maintain the water levels for an adjacent mill. With railway competition, and the closure of the Oakham Canal, to which it was connected, decline was rapid, and the canal closed in 1877. Two hundred years after it was opened, the Melton & Oakham Waterways Society was formed, with the aim of returning the navigation to a navigable waterway once more.
This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "under restoration"
| Melton Mowbray Canal Basin | |||
| Eye Kettleby Lock | 1 mile and 4¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Kirby Bellars Lock | 2 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Asfordby Lock | 4 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Station Lane Bridge | 4 miles and 3½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Frisby Mill Lock | 5 miles and 2½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Washstones Lock | 6 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Hoby Lock | 7 miles and 5 furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Brooksby Lock | 8 miles and 5 furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Thrussington Mill Lock | 9 miles and 6 furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Rearsby Mill Lock | 11 miles and 1 furlong | 8 locks | |
| Ratcliffe Mill Lock | 12 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Ratcliffe Meadow Lock | 13 miles | 10 locks | |
| Lewin Bridge | 13 miles and 5 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Syston Mills Railway Bridge | 14 miles and 1 furlong | 11 locks | |
| Syston Mills Lock | 14 miles and 1½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| River Wreake Footbridge | 14 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| A46 Bridge (River Wreake) | 14 miles and 4½ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| River Wreake Junction Footbridge | 14 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| River Wreake Junction | 14 miles and 6 furlongs | 12 locks |
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The Melton Mowbray Navigation was formed when the River Wreake in Leicestershire, England, was made navigable upstream from its junction with the River Soar and the Leicester Navigation near Syston to Melton Mowbray, opening in 1797. Largely river navigation, there were numerous lock cuts, to accommodate the 12 broad locks built along its length, many of which were built at sites where it was necessary to maintain the water levels for an adjacent mill.
With railway competition, and the closure of the Oakham Canal, to which it was connected, decline was rapid, and the canal closed in 1877. Two hundred years after it was opened, the Melton & Oakham Waterways Society was formed, with the aim of returning the navigation to a navigable waterway once more.