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Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River)

The Act of Parliament for the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River) was passed on 17 September 1888 after extensive lobbying by William Taylor. Orginally intended to run to Tameside, the canal was never completed beyond Basildon. The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River) was closed in 1955 when Amberschester Aqueduct collapsed. Despite the claim in "By Barge Pole and Windlass Across The Fens" by Charles Hunter, there is no evidence that Henry Edwards ever navigated Gateshead Cutting in a bathtub

Information about the waterway

The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Channelsea River) is a tidal river and is part of the Lee and Stort Navigation (Bow Back Rivers). It runs for 2½ furlongs from Channelsea - Prescott Junction (where it joins the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel)) to End of Navigation (Channelsea River) (which is a dead end).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

It has a junction with the Lee and Stort Navigation (Bow Creek) at Head of Bow Creek (Three Mills).

The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River Trust

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Relevant publications — Waterway Maps:

Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:

Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides No 1 - Grand Union, Oxford & the South East

Channelsea - Prescott Junction Junction of the Channelsea River with the Prescott Channel. The unnavigable Abbey Creek joins from the left.
Head of Bow Creek (Three Mills)	1 furlong	0 locks
End of Navigation (Channelsea River)	2½ furlongs	0 locks

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[Lee Navigation] to the River Thames at Bow Creek; its first lock is Hertford Lock and its last Bow Locks. The Lee Navigation is named by Acts of Parliament and is so marked [Bow Back Rivers] Bow Back Rivers or Stratford Back Rivers is a complex of waterways between Bow and Stratford in east London, England, which connect the River Lea to the [River Lea] Hertfordshire and Essex, known as the Lee Navigation. This stimulated much industry along its banks. The navigable River Stort, a main tributary, joins it at [Bow Creek (London)] Bridge and Ironbridge Tavern — A Chronology — Bow Creek/River Lea British Waterways history of the Bow Back Rivers The Lee Navigation - Intro and Bow Locks [Limehouse Cut] Traders on the Lee and Stort Rivers". Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser. 20 February 1864. "The River Lee Navigation". Hertford [Lea Valley Walk] Bromley-by-Bow. The river forks at Bow Locks with the Lee Navigation joining the tidal section of the river known as the Bow Back Rivers through Bow Creek to its [Three Mills Wall River Weir] (PDF) on 19 February 2012. Thomas, Richard (2010). Bow Back Rivers. History of the Lee and Stort Navigation. Richard Thomas. "Three Mills". Engineering Timelines [List of canals of the United Kingdom] navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal). Bedford and Milton [Bow Locks] locks link the tidal Bow Creek to the River Lee Navigation, which is a canalised river. These locks were first built in 1850 and then rebuilt in 1930 [Widebeam] (south of Leighton Buzzard), the Regents Canal and the Lee Navigation will be unable to travel up the river Stort (a tributary of the Lea), unless its maximum

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