Kaye's Arm, over Stockton Road, Long Itchington
The site of Kaye's Arm, a canal and associated wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located to the north west of Stockton Bridge.
1 Branches north from the Warwick and Napton Canal to serve the Southam Cement Works. Flooded, but the works now relies on rail transport. Almost opposite, an arm used to extend northwards to a lime works. This is now abandoned. The three canalside Inns served the workers from the numerous canalside lime and cement and quarries. “In 1819 the company agreed to a private cut being made by Charles Handley and John Tomes from the canal near Long Itchington, probably…..Keyes Arm”. “This branch originally crossed the canal from quarries on the north side to the cement works on the south. The northern arm was shut off during 1931-5”.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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