2013

SO8660 : Lock No 5 north of Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire

taken 11 years ago, near to Hawford, Worcestershire, England

Lock No 5 north of Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire
Lock No 5 north of Fernhill Heath, Worcestershire
Lock No 5* on the Droitwich Barge Canal. It is the second lock up in the Ladywood flight of five, providing a rise of 5ft 10in (1·8 metres). A footbridge this side of the lock gates has been removed during restorations.
The Droitwich Canals

The Droitwich Barge Canal from Hawford to Droitwich was opened in 1771 having taken four years to build. James Brindley was the designer and Robert Whitworth the resident engineer (Brindley was busy elsewhere much of the time). The canal needed to accommodate the Severn fourteen foot beam river barges (called trows), so locks and bridges are wide. This became a very busy canal, but its eventual decline was inevitable because of increasing railway competition, and the last boat used the canal in 1918. A trust was formed in 1973, aiming to restore and reopen the canal. This eventually happened in 2010.

The Droitwich Junction Canal was built in 1854 to link Droitwich (and the Barge Canal) to the main canal system at Hanbury, where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal is joined. This canal accommodates narrowboats (seven foot beam) only. The canal closed in the mid 1920s, then was restored and partly rebuilt, and opened in 2011.

Information summarised from the Droitwich Canals Trust site: LinkExternal link


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SO8660, 152 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Roger D Kidd   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 21 June, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 23 February, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 8625 6065 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:14.6316N 2:12.1680W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SO 8620 6062
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