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Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide/long lock section)

 
 

The Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide/long lock section) was built by John Smeaton and opened on January 1 1835. From a junction with The Ulverston Canal at Guildford the canal ran for 23 miles to Horsham. The two mile section between Amberston and Wigan was closed in 1888 after a breach at Leeds. "By Barge Pole and Piling Hook Across The Pennines" by Charles Taylor describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Kingston-upon-Hull Cutting.

Information about the waterway

The Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide/long lock section) is a broad canal and is part of the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal). It runs for 1¾ furlongs through 1 lock from Bourne Bridge (where it joins the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Main section)) to Bourne Mill Bridge (where it joins the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide section)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 90 feet long and 16 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

This section including Bourne Lock was wide enough (15') to allow Severn Trows to get up to Bourne Boatyard, and long enough (90') to allow Thames Barges to get to Brimscombe Port.

This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "under restoration"

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Bourne Bridge
Site of the bridge, currently a causeway.
Bourne Railway Bridge 1½ furlongs 0 locks
Bourne Lock No 8
Rescued 1995		 1¾ furlongs 0 locks
Bourne Mill Bridge 1¾ furlongs 1 lock
 
 
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Cotswold Canals may refer to:

  • Stroudwater Navigation
  • Thames and Severn Canal
  • Cotswold Canals Trust

Other Wikipedia pages that might relate to Cotswold Canals
[Cotswold Canals Trust] The Cotswold Canals Trust (previously the Stroudwater and Thames and Severn Canal Trust) is an English registered charity that aims to protect and restore [Thames and Severn Canal] canal's traffic by the end of the 19th century, and most of the canal was abandoned in 1927, the remainder in 1941. Since 1972, the Cotswold Canals Trust [Sapperton Canal Tunnel] legging until 1911. The canal was abandoned by 1933 and subsequent roof falls mean that it is no longer navigable. Cotswold Canals Trust have proposed restoration [Stonehouse, Gloucestershire] swing bridge where canal boats would turn. There used to be a repair yard there. The Cotswold Canals Trust are actively restoring the canal. Work is currently [CCT] Transitway, a proposed transit line in Montgomery County, Maryland Cotswold Canals Trust, a canal restoration trust in southern England Covered Carriage Truck [Stroud] century. Restoration of these canals as a leisure facility by a partnership of Stroud District Council and the Cotswold Canals Trust is well under way with [Stroudwater Navigation] interest in retaining the canal for its amenity value. The Stroudwater Canal Society, which later became the Cotswold Canals Trust, was formed in 1972 [Round House, Inglesham] Cotswold Canals Trust. In 2010 work started on the restoration of the flight of locks by the Waterway Recovery Group and Kent and East Sussex Canal Restoration [Brimscombe and Thrupp] The former port is to be regenerated as part of the canal restoration project by the Cotswold Canals Partnership. This will require considerable engineering
 
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