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Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel)

 
 

The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) was built by Nicholas Wright and opened on January 1 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlecroft to Rhondda canal at Warwick, the difficulty of tunneling through the Barton Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Oxford instead. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Wrexham were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Aylesbury kept it open. The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) was closed in 1905 when Bernigo Tunnel collapsed. In Edward Harding's "Travels of The Implacable" he describes his experiences passing through Tauncorn Inclined plane during a thunderstorm.

Information about the waterway

The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) is a commercial waterway and is part of the Lee and Stort Navigation (Bow Back Rivers). It runs for 2¼ furlongs through 1 lock from Three Mills - Prescott Junction (where it joins the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Three Mills Wall River)) to Channelsea - Prescott Junction (where it joins the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River)).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust
Canal & River Trust  0303 040 4040
 https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/
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Relevant publications — Waterway Maps:

Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:

Three Mills - Prescott Junction
Junction of the Three Mills Wall River with the Prescott Channel and the Three Mills Residential Moorings Arm
Bisson Road Bridge a few yards 0 locks
Three Mills Lock 1½ furlongs 0 locks
Prescott Tidal Pound 2 furlongs 1 lock
Channelsea - Prescott Junction
Junction of the Channelsea River with the Prescott Channel. The unnavigable Abbey Creek joins from the left.		 2¼ furlongs 1 lock
 
 
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[Lee Navigation] to the River Thames at Bow Creek; its first lock is Hertford Lock and its last Bow Locks. The Lee Navigation is named by Acts of Parliament and is so marked [Bow Back Rivers] Bow Back Rivers or Stratford Back Rivers is a complex of waterways between Bow and Stratford in east London, England, which connect the River Lea to the [River Lea] Hertfordshire and Essex, known as the Lee Navigation. This stimulated much industry along its banks. The navigable River Stort, a main tributary, joins it at [Bow Creek (London)] Bridge and Ironbridge Tavern — A Chronology — Bow Creek/River Lea British Waterways history of the Bow Back Rivers The Lee Navigation - Intro and Bow Locks [Limehouse Cut] Traders on the Lee and Stort Rivers". Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser. 20 February 1864. "The River Lee Navigation". Hertford [Lea Valley Walk] Bromley-by-Bow. The river forks at Bow Locks with the Lee Navigation joining the tidal section of the river known as the Bow Back Rivers through Bow Creek to its [Three Mills Wall River Weir] (PDF) on 19 February 2012. Thomas, Richard (2010). Bow Back Rivers. History of the Lee and Stort Navigation. Richard Thomas. "Three Mills". Engineering Timelines [List of canals of the United Kingdom] navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal). Bedford and Milton [Geography of London] area started with navigation works on the Lea and Stort from 1424 onwards, leading to the River Lee Navigation and Bow Back Rivers. Initially used for [Widebeam] (south of Leighton Buzzard), the Regents Canal and the Lee Navigation will be unable to travel up the river Stort (a tributary of the Lea), unless its maximum
 
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