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Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Whelford Canal Feeder)

 
 
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The Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Whelford Canal Feeder) is a narrow canal and is part of the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal). It runs for 1 mile and 7 furlongs from Whelford Canal Feeder Source (which is a dead end) to Whelford Canal Feeder Arm (where it joins the Cotswold Canals (Thames and Severn Canal - Main section)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 70 feet long and 7 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

The Whelford Canal Feeder Arm was an important source of water to feed the long pound from Eysey Lock to Dudgrove as well as the Dudgrove and Inglesham Locks. The water was sourced from the R. Coln below the mill in Whelford.

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

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Whelford Canal Feeder Source
Collet's Bridge 3 furlongs 0 locks
Kempsford Wharf 1 mile and 6½ furlongs 0 locks
Whelford Canal Feeder Arm
Navigable feeder providing water from the R. Coln via Whelford.
1 mile and 7 furlongs 0 locks
 
 
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Cotswold Canals may refer to:

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

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[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 [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 [CCT] Transitway, a proposed transit line in Montgomery County, Maryland Cotswold Canals Trust, a canal restoration trust in southern England Covered Carriage Truck [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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