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Tardebigge Locks, Worcestershire

The flight of thirty locks from Stoke Pound to Tardebigge (Birmingham Level) raises the water level by 217 feet (66 metres) in about two miles (3.3 km). These locks are numbered 29 to 58, bottom to top, all of them Grade II listed structures.

In all, between the River Severn at Worcester and the Birmingham level (just under sixteen miles) there are 58 locks, raising the water level by 428 feet (about 157 metres) and five tunnels. This was not the original plan, which involved 76 locks. At one time the engineer John Woodhouse proposed that there be just twelve locks and a series of boat-lifts, but although just one lift was built (at the present Tardebigge Top Lock) this was quite quickly replaced, and the lift idea was replaced with just 58 locks.

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by Roger D Kidd

Created: Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Updated: Fri, 4 Mar 2011


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SO9768 : Lock 45 and Bridge 52 by Jeff Gogarty
SO9768 : Tardebigge  Lock No 45, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9667 : Tardebigge Lock No 30 by Mat Fascione
SO9868 : Tardebigge  Lock No 49, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Tardebigge Flight by Stephen McKay
SO9868 : Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge by Mat Fascione
SO9768 : Lock 45, Tardebigge Flight by Stephen McKay
SO9768 : Tardebigge  Locks No 46 and 47, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9767 : Tardebigge Lock No 36, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Tardebigge  Lock No 56, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9768 : Tardebigge  Lock No 44, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Tardebigge  Lock No 53 and cottage, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Tardebigge Lock No 48, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Tardebigge Locks by Roger  D Kidd
SO9768 : Lock keeper's cottage with ham radio masts by Jeff Gogarty
SO9667 : Tardebigge  Lock No 32, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9667 : Tardebigge Locks near Stoke Pound, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Tardebigge  Lock No 47, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9768 : Tardebigge  Lock No 37, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9767 : Tardebigge Lock No 36, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9768 : Lock keepers cottage along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal by Mat Fascione
SO9768 : Tardebigge  Lock No 41, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9768 : Tardebigge  Lock No 44, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Cottage by Tardebigge Lock No 53, Worcestershire by Roger  D Kidd
SO9868 : Tardebigge Locks by Philip Halling

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