Grand Western Canal
The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 72 feet long and 7 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.
Notable features of the waterway include Waytown Tunnel
The waterway passes through Tiverton
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
| Lowdwells End of Navigation |
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| Waytown Tunnel (eastern entrance) | 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Waytown Tunnel (western entrance) | 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Waytown Limekilns | 3½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Whipcott Wharf Bridge | 5¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Fenacre Bridge | 1 mile and 1¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Fossend Bridge | 1 mile and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Black Bridge (Westleigh) | 1 mile and 5¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Ebear Bridge | 2 miles and 3½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Westcott Bridge | 2 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Ayshford Bridge | 3 miles and 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Holbrooke Bridge | 3 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Boehill Bridge | 4 miles and ¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Buckland Bridge | 4 miles and 3 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sampford Peverell | 4 miles and 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sampford Peverell Winding Hole | 4 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sampford Peverell Bridge With attached footbridge |
4 miles and 6 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Battens Bridge Road leading to Battens Farm from the Grand Western Canal Vistor Guide |
5 miles and 2½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Watton Bridge | 5 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Rock House Bridge | 5 miles and 7½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| High Street Bridge (Halberton) Former Swing Bridge |
6 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Greenway Bridge (Halberton) | 6 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Sellake Bridge | 6 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Dudley Weatherley Jubilee Lift Bridge | 7 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Tiverton Road Bridge Road between Tiverton and Halberton |
7 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Crownhill Bridge | 8 miles and 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Great Western Railway Aqueduct (Halberton) | 8 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| East Manley Bridge Winding Hole | 8 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| East Manley Bridge | 8 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Manley Bridge | 9 miles and 1½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Warnicombe Bridge | 9 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Tidcombe Bridge Near Newtes Hill |
10 miles and ¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| William Authers Footbridge | 10 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Bampfylde Close Winding Hole | 10 miles and 4 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Tiverton Aqueduct Trains use to go under the aqueduct |
10 miles and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Tiverton Winding Hole | 10 miles and 5½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Tiverton End of Navigation |
10 miles and 6½ furlongs | 0 locks |
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Wikipedia has a page about Grand Western Canal
The Grand Western Canal ran between Taunton in Somerset and Tiverton in Devon in the United Kingdom. The canal had its origins in various plans, going back to 1796, to link the Bristol Channel and the English Channel by a canal, bypassing Lands End. An additional purpose of the canal was the supply of limestone and coal to lime kilns along with the removal of the resulting quicklime, which was used as a fertiliser and for building houses. This intended canal-link was never completed as planned, as the coming of the railways removed the need for its existence.
Construction was in two phases. A level section, from Tiverton to Lowdwells on the Devon/Somerset border, opened in 1814, and was capable of carrying broad-beam barges, carrying up to 40 tons. The Somerset section, suitable for tub boats (which were about 20 feet (6 m) long and capable of carrying eight tons) opened in 1839. It included an inclined plane and seven boat lifts, the earliest lifts to see commercial service in the UK. The lifts predated the Anderton Boat Lift by nearly 40 years.
The 11 miles of Devon section remains open, despite various threats to its future, and is now a designated country park and local nature reserve, and allows navigation. The Somerset section was closed in 1867, and is gradually disappearing from the landscape, although sections are now used as a footpath. It maintains a historical interest and has been subject to some archaeological excavations.