1 Along the canal banks in the above square are four wharves. There is one to each side of the Nuneaton Road bridge (SP 33 94), and one to each ...
The Wharves at Hartshill. Four canal wharfs, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods, were in use during the Imperial period. They are situated 500m north of Hartshill Quarries.
2 Described as a coal wharf, dates from 1771 but much altered in Victorian times when railway sidings installed. The buildings have gone, only the dock and the sidings ...
Baddesley Wharf, a canal wharf and basin, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods and coal. It dates to the Imperial period and is situated west of Holly Lane.
1 Lockhouses marked on early OS map.
2 Inaccessible.
The site of lock houses which date to the Imperial period and are situated 1km north west of Whittington. They are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
1 A small canal basin served by a tramway is shown here on the 1st edition 25″ OS. The tramway would presumably have brought coal from Dordon mines. Just ...
A canal, canal basin and wharf where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods. They were built during the Imperial period. The canal basin and wharf are situated 100m south of Tamworth Road, Polesworth.
1 Although built by Newdigate, the Griff Hollows Canal was separate from the Arbury system. Newdigate started work in 1785 upon a private canal from the Hollows on the ...
A junction on the Coventry Canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It dates from the Imperial period, and is in good condition if not navigable. It is situated 400m northwest of Burlingtom Road.
1 On the 1903 OS 25″ the bridge here is marked ‘Coton old wharf bridge’.
2 The bridge is date-marked 1925. To the E of the bridge is a wide section ...
Coton Old Wharf. Documentary evidence suggests the site of a canal wharf, where vessels loaded and unloaded goods, situated to the east of Coventry Road, Chilvers Coton.
1 Of the 30 miles length of the Ashby canal only a short stretch is in Warwickshire. The canal enters the county to form its junction with the Coventry canal ...
The Ashby de la Zouche Canal, a waterway used for transporting goods, and dating from the Imperial period.
1 Bramcote Wharf is marked at this point on the Ashby de la Zouch canal, where the canal is crossed by the Lutterworth Road. Neither the OS 6″ or ...
Bramcote Wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located 200m southwest of Bramcote Hospital.
1 Here there is a large open area with a two storey red brick, possibly 19th century, warehouse.
Bradley Green Wharf, a canal wharf where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located at the northeast end of Grendon First School.
1 Basin marked on OS 1:10 000.
2 Unaccessible during a site visit.
A canal and canal basin. An artificial waterway used for transporting goods. The canal basin is an area of open water where vessels could load and unload goods. The canal and the canal basin date to the Imperial period, the basin being located 150m south of Alvecote.
1 The 1903 25″ OS shows a wharf at this location.
2 There is a discernible widening of the canal just west of the bridge where the old wharf is shown ...
Curdworth Wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located soutwest of Curdworth Bridge, and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903.
1 The 1886 OS 6″ map shows a wharf at this location on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal. The adjacent bridge is called Dunton Wharf Bridge on later maps. ...
The site of a canal wharf known as Dunton Wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods. It was built during the Imperial period and was situated 450m north east of Baylis's Bridge.
1 The 1903 OS 25″shows a wharf in this position on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal.
2 To the west of the canal is a modern wharf and a large flat ...
Canal and canal wharf - the Birmingham to Fazeley canal and the site of a wharf where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods. It dates to the Imperial period and is located to the north of Bodymoor Heath Bridge. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903.
1 This wharf is marked on the 1903 OS 25″ map. It is located just south of Fisher’s Mill Bridge. It presumably served the nearby Fisher’s Mill, reported ...
The site of Fisher's Mill Wharf, a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods. It dated to the Imperial period and lay 50m south of Fisher's Mill Bridge, and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1903.
1 The Birmingham to Fazeley Canal projected from Birmingham to Fazeley on that part of the Coventry Canal which had not yet been built, to break the Birmingham Canal Company’s ...
The Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, which was built during the Imperial period.
1 Sir Roger Newdigate built the Arbury Canals, about 5.5 miles in all, between 1764 and 1795, although he incorporated a number of boatways which had existed before 1711. The ...
The Arbury private canals at Arbury Park, which were constructed during the Post Medieval period.
1 The W and N C was authorised in 1794 and was built and opened simultaneously with the Warwick and Birmingham Canal in 1800. It was therefore an essential ...
The Grand Union Canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It dates to the Imperial period, when it was the Warwick and Napton Canal, and part of the link between Birmingham and London.
1 Boatloads of crude tar were carried from here to MTD distilleries at Banbury by Thomas Clayton Ltd in narrow boats with tank holds. The works closed in the ...
The site of a canal wharf and gasworks, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located between the end of Priory Street and the Grand Union Canal.
1 An unusual wide double lock No 14/15, built during the 1930’s to replace two separate narrow locks. On the Warwick and Napton (Grand Union) canal.
A wide double canal lock built in modern times. A lock is a chamber with wooden gates at each end, with sluices used to lower and raise the water level of a canal. It is located on the Grand Union Canal just west of the Toll House Bridge.
1 A short aqueduct carries the Warwick and Napton canal across the River Itchen at this point.
Itchen Aquaduct, which carries the Grand Union Canal over the River Itchen. It was built in the Imperial period, and is located 100m west of Bickley's Bridge, Long Itchington.
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 ...
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 Wharf noted to exist near Birdingbury Bridge.
2 There was no sign of anything at this NGR during a site visit.
3 Mapped extent altered based upon 1st edition Ordnance Survey ...
The site of Birdingbury Wharf, a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located at Birdingbury Bridge.
1 It is possible to detect the overgrown arm which led from the canal to Nelson’s Cement Works, mid way between bridges 20 and 21.
2 The works appear to have ...
Nelson Cement Works Arm, the site of a canal arm of the Grand Union Canal, now overgrown and the cement works demolished. It dates from the Imperial period, and was located 500m south east of Birdingbury Bridge.
1 There is a wharf shown on the 1886 OS map to the W of Gibraltar Bridge on the Warwick and Napton canal. A large square basin is shown to ...
The site of a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located just to the west of Gibraltar Bridge north of Stockton, and was marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.