Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide section)
The Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide section) is a broad canal and is part of the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal).
It runs for 2 miles and 7¼ furlongs through 7 locks from Bourne Mill Bridge (where it joins the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Wide/long lock section)) to Site of Entrance to Wallbridge Basin (where it joins the Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Un-navigable Section)).
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 68 feet long and 16 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
Built to the same gauge as the Stroudwater Navigation to allow Severn Trows to get up to Brimscombe Port where their cargoes could be trans-shipped into Thames Barges for shipping to destinations further east.
This waterway is excluded by default from route planning with the following explanation: "no reason given"
Relevant publications — Waterway Maps:
- Waterway Routes 01M - England and Wales Map
- Waterway Routes 55M - Cotswold Canals Map (Free Download)
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
| Bourne Mill Bridge | |||
| Site of Brimscombe Foundry | ¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Brimscombe Port T&S Headquarters and barge/trow transhipment point - currently filled in. End of restoration project phase 1A. |
1¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Former Salt Warehouse | 1¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Port Mill (Woollen) | 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Site of Brimscombe Port Swing Bridge | 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Site of River Frome Aqueduct | 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Brimscombe Corner Bridge Currently filled in |
2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| The Ship Inn (Brimscombe) | 3 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Site of Brimscombe Mill (Woollen) | 3¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Goughs Orchard Lock No 7 WRG restored 2010 |
4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Gough's Orchard Bridge | 4¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Gough's Orchard Feeder | 4¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Site of Proposed Hope Mill New Bridge | 5¾ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Hope Mill Lock No 6 Lock is buried |
5¾ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Stroud Brewery | 6¾ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Bagpath Bridge | 7¾ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Ham Mill Lock No 5 Restored 2015 |
1 mile and 1¼ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Ham Mill Bridge | 1 mile and 1½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Jubilee Footbridge | 1 mile and 2¾ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Griffin Mill Lock No 4 Restored 2014 |
1 mile and 3½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Stantons Bridge | 1 mile and 5¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Bowbridge Lock No 3 Restored 2015 |
1 mile and 7 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Bowbridge Bridge Restored 2017 |
1 mile and 7¼ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| River Frome Aqueduct | 2 miles and 1½ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Stroud Railway Viaduct New cut under the Swindon to Stroud railway. |
2 miles and 2½ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Capel's Mill New Canal Channel | 2 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Dr Newton's Way Bridge | 2 miles and 3 furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Wallbridge Upper Lock No 2 Navigable 2012 |
2 miles and 5½ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Cotswold Canals Trust Visitor Centre - Stroud | 2 miles and 5½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Wallbridge Bridge | 2 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Brewery Bridge (Wallbridge) An important new bridge officially opened by the Princess Royal (H.R.H. Princess Anne) on 10/02/2012. |
2 miles and 6 furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Bankfield House Former Stroudwater Canal Company Headquarters |
2 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Wallbridge Lower Lock No 1 Wallbridge Lower Lock was officially opened by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales on 2nd. February 2018. |
2 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Site of Entrance to Wallbridge Basin The junction between the Stroudwater Navigation and the Thames & Severn Canal. |
2 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 7 locks |
- Wallbridge Webcam — associated with Brewery Bridge (Wallbridge)
- Farson Digital Watercams - Hi-def webcam at Stroud, Wallbridge Lower Lock — associated with Wallbridge Lower Lock No 1
- Council buys the Ship Inn — associated with The Ship Inn (Brimscombe)
- Brimscombe’ s only pub The Ship Inn sold to new owner | Stroud News and Journal — associated with The Ship Inn (Brimscombe)
- Upper Lock Café — associated with Wallbridge Upper Lock No 2
- Brimscombe Salt Store — associated with Former Salt Warehouse
- Salt Warehouse — associated with Former Salt Warehouse
- Planning permission notice — associated with Hope Mill Lock No 6
Wikipedia has a page about Cotswold Canals
Cotswold Canals may refer to:
- Stroudwater Navigation
- Thames and Severn Canal
- Cotswold Canals Trust
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