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Daventry Canal

Information about the waterway

The Daventry Canal is a narrow canal and is part of the Waterways of Mainland Britain. It runs for 2 miles through 1 lock from Daventry Canal Basin (which is a dead end) to Welton Junction (proposed) (where it joins the Grand Union Canal (Grand Junction Canal - Main Line - Braunston to Norton)).

The maximum length for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway is 72 feet long. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

Daventry District Council is promoting the construction of a £11.7 million new canal from near the town centre to the Grand Union Canal, just east of Braunston Tunnel, passing alongside Daventry Reservoir. It is likely that there will be 7 locks over the 2 mile length of the arm to accommodate a level difference of 20.5 metres. It has been suggested that one flight of 4 locks could be replaced by a boatlift presenting an opportunity to create a tourist attraction of regional and perhaps national importance. Although only just over a mile away from the canal at its closest point, Daventry completely misses out on the benefits of the busy waterway. The Council sees the new canal as a potential catalyst for regeneration in Daventry town centre and for raising the town’s profile as a tourist destination. Daventry District Council received grants of £275,000 from East Midlands Development Agency and Northamptonshire Enterprise Ltd during 2009 to help fund feasibility and design work into the WaterSpace project. A second round of public consultation took place in October 2010 on revised proposals for sites 3 and 6 which included the canal basins. The proposals had a rather mixed reaction, and Daventry District Council is now working on an outline planning application. A new group, Daventry Canal Association, was formed to give support to the proposals in 2011.

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "proposed extension to navigation"

Daventry Canal Basin
Daventry Basin Lock	¾ furlongs	0 locks
Welton Road Bridge (proposed)	1¼ furlongs	1 lock
Northern Way Road Bridge (Daventry)	2 furlongs	1 lock
Proposed Bridge (Daventry Canal)	3¼ furlongs	1 lock
Daventry Reservoir Bridge (proposed)	1 mile and 1 furlong	1 lock
Welton Junction (proposed) Proposed location of the Junction with the, as yet to be built, Daventry Canal	2 miles	1 lock

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Daventry Canal Association - Home — associated with this page: Campaign organisation for development of Daventry Canal

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[Daventry] Daventry (/ˈdævəntri/ DAV-ən-tree, historically /ˈdeɪntri/ DAYN-tree) is a market town and civil parish in western Northamptonshire, England, close to [Daventry Country Park] is owned and managed by Daventry District Council. The park centres on Daventry Reservoir, which feeds the Grand Union Canal, and there are also meadows [Weedon Bec] usually just Weedon, is a large village and parish in the district of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. It lies close to the source of the River Nene [Grand Junction Canal] Park in the parish of Brentford, to the Oxford Canal at Braunston. It also authorised branches to Daventry, the River Nene at Northampton, to the turnpike [Northamptonshire] population centres include Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Rushden and Daventry. Northamptonshire's county flower is the cowslip. The Soke of Peterborough [Drayton Reservoir] is a reservoir in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England. The reservoir is accessible from the A361 near the northern edge of Daventry. Drayton Reservoir [A45 road] it crosses the Oxford Canal and Grand Union Canal near Braunston. The Jurassic Way crosses the road here. The road enters Daventry and briefly runs concurrent [Crick, Northamptonshire] Crick is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. It is close to the border with Warwickshire, 6 miles (9.7 km) [Whilton Locks] Union Canal near Daventry, in the county of Northamptonshire, England. They are also referred to as Buckby Lock Flight. The Grand Junction Canal was authorised [Welford Reservoir] reservoirs owned by the Canal & River Trust - the other being Sulby Reservoir - that provide water to the summit level of the Grand Union Canal by way of the navigable

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