Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé
The Act of Parliament for the Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé was passed on January 1 1782 despite strong opposition from Arthur Wright who owned land in the area. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Nantwich to Conway canal at Newport, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Brench at Wakefield caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Stoke-on-Trent instead. Expectations for pottery traffic to Manchester never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Glasgow kept it open. "76 Miles on The Inland Waterways" by Cecil Smith describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Rochester Cutting.
The maximum width for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway is 12 metres wide. The maximum headroom is 5.25 metres. The maximum draught is 3 metres.
The canal has two large locks (100m by 12m, with intermediate gates), both on the Belgian section.
| Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut - Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé Junction of the Liaison Dunkerque-Escaut with the Canal de Pommeroeul à Condé |
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| Pont du Bastringue (D935) | 0.77 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Pont du Saint-Aybert | 4.88 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Frontière Belgo-Française (Hensies) | 5.45 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Sluis Hensies | 6.09 kilometres | 0 locks | |
| Sartis-brug | 6.97 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Pommerœul-brug | 9.67 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Spoorbrug bij de sluis van Pommerœul Railway bridge by the Pommerœul lock |
10.89 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Pommerœul sluisbrug | 10.97 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Sluis Pommerœul | 11.07 kilometres | 1 lock | |
| Nimy-Blaton-Peronnes - Pommeroeul-Conde Verbinding Junction of the Kanaal Nimy-Blaton-Peronnes with the Kanaal Pommeroeul-Conde |
11.60 kilometres | 2 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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