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Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Navigable Section)

 
 

Early plans of what would become the Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Navigable Section) were drawn up by James Brindley in 1888 but problems with Newcastle-under-Lyme Tunnel caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1835. Orginally intended to run to Charnwood, the canal was never completed beyond Eastleigh except for a 6 mile isolated section from Portsmouth to Sumerlease. The Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Navigable Section) was closed in 1905 when Slough Locks collapsed. "Travels of The Barge" by Cecil Harding describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Stratford-on-Avon Embankment.

Information about the waterway

The Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Navigable Section) is a broad canal and is part of the Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation). It runs for 2¼ furlongs from Saul Junction (where it joins the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal and the Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Abandoned Section)) to Walk Bridge (where it joins the Cotswold Canals (Stroudwater Navigation - Un-navigable Section)).

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 68 feet long and 16 feet wide. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

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Saul Junction
Junction of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal with the Stroudwater Navigation
Junction House Footbridge a few yards 0 locks
Saul Junction Marina 1 furlong 0 locks
Walk Bridge
Current (2011) limit of navigation from Saul Junction. 		2¼ 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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