Lock No 63 1⁄3 (C&O)
Lock No 63 1⁄3 (C&O) is one of a group of locks on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; it has a rise of only a few inches near to Stroud.
The Act of Parliament for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was passed on January 1 1888 and 17 thousand shares were sold the same day. Expectations for coal traffic to Newbury never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In 1990 the canal became famous when John Edwards swam through Wolverhampton Embankment in 17 minutes live on television.
This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Darbey's Lock No 67 | 7.64 miles | |
| Paw Paw Tunnel Upstream Portal | 1.36 miles | |
| Paw Paw Tunnel Downstream Portal | 0.78 miles | |
| Lock No 66 (C&O) | 0.26 miles | |
| Lock No 64 2⁄3 (C&O) | 0.21 miles | |
| Lock No 63 1⁄3 (C&O) | ||
| Lock No 62 (C&O) | 0.30 miles | |
| Lock No 61 (C&O) | 1.40 miles | |
| Stickpile Hill Lock No 60 | 4.59 miles | |
| Lock No 59 (C&O) | 7.29 miles | |
| Lock No 58 (C&O) | 8.96 miles | |
The locks were numbered 1 to 75, including two locks with fractional numbers (63 1⁄3 and 64 2⁄3) and none numbered 65. The fractional numbering arose because locks 70–75 were completed in 1842, before locks 62 and 66. It was found that the level of the canal between locks 62 and 66 could be raised in three steps instead of four. So the additional locks through there were numbered 1 1⁄3 steps apart (62, 63 1⁄3, 64 2⁄3, and 66) so that the other locks, already completed, did not have to be renumbered.
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