Canal de Bergues Main Line
The Canal de Bergues Main Line is a commercial waterway and is part of the Canal de Bergues.
It runs for 7.78 kilometres from Bergues (which is a dead end) to Jonction - Bergues Jonction (where it joins the Canal de Jonction (l'Ile Jeanty - Bergues)).
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.
It has a junction with the Canal de Bergues Derivation du Canal de Bergues at Bergues - Derivation Bergues Jonction.
| Bergues | |||
| Pont du Parc du Fort Louis aux Sept Planètes | 4.70 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont de A16 (Dunkerque) | 5.89 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont Pierre Everaert | 6.09 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont de l'Hôtel de Ville | 6.38 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont Saint-Georges (Dunkerque) | 6.44 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont Ferroviaire Dunkerque - Lycée Ferdnand Léger | 6.66 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Bergues - Derivation Bergues Jonction | 6.95 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont des Coopérateurs | 7.08 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont Louis Legrand | 7.13 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Passerelle du Batardeau | 7.32 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont Rouge (sud) | 7.73 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont Rouge (nord) | 7.74 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Jonction - Bergues Jonction | 7.78 kilometres | 0 locks |
- VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe
- The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners
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[Battle of Hondschoote]
Oost-Cappel and Rexpoëde back to Bergues. This fortified town was, two days later, surrounded by a corps moving south of Bergues and taking Wormhout and Esquelbecq
[Battle of Dunkirk]
from Nieuwpoort in the east via Veurne, Bulskamp and Bergues to Gravelines in the west. The line was made as strong as possible under the circumstances
[Dunkirk]
marshland under cultivation, laid out the first plans to build a Canal from Dunkirk to Bergues and vested the Dunkirkers with market rights. In the late 13th
[Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban]
and worked on many of France's major ports, as well as projects like the Canal de la Bruche, which remain in use today. He founded the Corps royal des ingénieurs
[Siege of Dunkirk (1793)]
by 2,500 reinforcements to nearly 8,000, while the remainder occupied Bergues. Burne indicates these reinforcements were the repatriated former garrison
[War of Devolution]
exception of eleven towns and their surrounding areas. Lille, Armentières, Bergues and Douai were considered essential to reinforce France's vulnerable northern
[Cambrai]
navigable in 1780, from Cambrai to the North Sea. The Scheldt is today the Canal de l'Escaut downstream of Cambrai. In addition, the river initially served
[Battle of Passchendaele]
1915, with the doubling of the Hazebrouck–Ypres rail line and the building of a new line from Bergues to Proven, which was doubled in early 1917. Progress
[Bourbourg]
Manoir du Withof. The town is crossed by the canal that goes from Dunkirk to the Aa. You can walk along the canal which skirts the old town walls built by
[23rd (Northumbrian) Division]
fend off German attacks at Gravelines until ordered to withdraw to Bergues. From Bergues, the battalion was sent to Haeghe-Muelen, 8 miles (13 km) south