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.
1 Two large reservoirs to the W of and adjacent to the Warwick and Napton canal near Napton Junction. “The company
decided to build a reservoir at Napton instead of buying ...
Napton Reservoirs, constructed in the Imperial period to serve the Warwick and Napton Canal.
1 When first promoted in 1792 the canal which here joins the Oxford was known as the Warwick and Braunston Canal as that was to be the junction. It was ...
Napton Junction on the Grand Union Canal, dating from the Imperial period. It is located 200m to the southeast of the southern tip of Napton Reservoirs.
1 The act authorising a canal from Digbeth to Warwick was passed in 1793. The canal was to end at Saltisford wharf and was originally to have been wide ...
The Warwick and Birmingham Canal, a waterway used for the transporting of goods. It was built during the Imperial period.
1 ‘Numerous wharves used to serve the rural communities of the Forest of Arden…(including)… Rowington Green Wharf where the houses are now residences. This wharf is called Turner Green ...
The site of canal wharves, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. They were located at Turner's Green Bridge.
Canal cutting.
1 “Tunnels….were intended at Rowington and at Yardley but during construction changes in plans made them unnecessary”.
2 “The canal negotiates a ridge of land, Rowington Hill, by a cutting. ...
Rowington Cutting, a canal cutting, possibly originally intended as the start of a tunnel. It was dug during the Imperial period. It is located 400m west of the church at Rowington.
1 There was a wharf at John’s Bridge 55 in the cutting at the approach to Hatton Flight.
2 Shown on the OS 6″ as Hatton Wharf (Disused).
3 This is a ...
The site of John's Wharf, a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located at John's Bridge, 600m south of the church at Hatton Green.
1 Hatton flight consists of 21 locks numbered 26-46 within 2 miles. The wide locks were opened in 1934 while the old narrow locks now serve as overflow weirs. All ...
Hatton Locks, a flight of canal locks, structures built along the canal to enable canal boats to be raised or lowered to different levels. The locks are of Imperial and modern date and they are situated 300m south west of Hatton.
1 Kingswood junction marks the junction between the Stratford upon Avon Canal and the Warwick and Birmingham Canal. The orignal plan was for the connection to be one and ...
Kingswood Junction, a canal junction between the Stratford on Avon Canal, and the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, dating from the Imperial period. It is located 300m southwest of Kingswood Bridge.
1 Asylum Wharf on the Warwick and Birmingham Canal is reported to be near bridge 53. There are no signs of this on the OS 25″, even though it ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this was the site of Asylum Wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It is located at Middle Lock Bridge, 700m south east of Hatton Hill.
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 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 A building called ‘Lock House’ marked on 1926 6″ OS map at this point.
2 It is a modernised 19th century two-storey lock cottage.
A canal lock keepers cottage, dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1926. It is located 600m west of Budbrooke.
1 Reservoir marked on the OS 25″ as belonging to the Warwick and Napton Canal Company.
2 No mention is made of this in the relevant literature. The reservoir is ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this canal reservoir belonged to the Warwick and Napton Canal Company. It dates from the Imperial period, and is located 200m south of the western end of Stockton Locks.
1 A boat-building yard, wharf and slipway are shown in this position on the OS 25″ map.
2 The site is now occupied by part of the Shire pie factory.
The site of Emscote Road Boatyard and canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. It was located 300m west of the intersection of the Avon and the Warwick Canal.
1 A Warwickshire Museum Waterways survey shows a wharf at this point, south of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal.
2 The wharf is difficult to discerne; there is however a lockkeepers ...
The site of a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods during the Imperial period. The wharf was found during a Waterways Survey in 1976. It was located 600m south west of Warwick Cemetery.
1 The Stratford-upon-Avon canal runs from the river Avon at Bancroft Basin in Stratford-upon-Avon to the Worcester and Birmingham canal at Kings Norton junction. Constructed between 1796 and 1815.
2 ...
The Stratford on Avon Canal dates from the Imperial period. It runs between the Bancroft Basin in Stratford and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton, Birmingham.