Saltisford Wharf and Canal Arm
The site of Saltisford Wharf, a canal wharf and basin, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located at the east end of Warwick Race Course.
1 The Warwick-Birmingham Canal used to continue into Saltisford but it is no longer navigable beyond the bridge at Budbrooke Junction, SP2765. The disused section contains water as far as the brick GWR viaduct, SP2765, but has been filled in beyond there. There is a very narrow little red brick bridge just south of the viaduct and beyond that there are signs that there used to be wharves and factories along the canal.
2 This is confirmed by the OS 25″ map which shows the canal terminating in two docks, one of which has a swing bridge over. There are extensive wharfside buildings all of which are in a demolished state and the site is now covered by the buildings of Cape Warwick Ltd. The section of the canal up to the GWR bridge is presently undergoing restoration.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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My father, Peter Stocker, says that when he was a child, living in Warwick, he could remember a motor torpedo boat (MTB) being moored there on that section of canal for a few months in about 1943, during the war. It was not known what it was there for, but everyone assumed that it was for some kinds of weapons research to help with the war effort. It was a bit of a mystery as to how it got and left there though, no one whom he knew, saw it either come or go!
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