2010

SK4929 : Fishing sign by the Soar

taken 14 years ago, near to Ratcliffe on Soar, Nottinghamshire, England

Fishing sign by the Soar
Fishing sign by the Soar
The whole of this pretty area is dominated by the Ratcliff-on-Soar power station.
River Soar Navigation

24.1 miles (38.8km) long with 18 locks from just above Freeman's Meadow Lock in Leicester to the River Trent and Erewash Canal; the River Soar forms part of the Grand Union Canal Leicester Section. Thomas Skipworth was granted permission by Charles I to make the river navigable in 1634 but the scheme was never completed. The section between the River Trent and Loughborough was made navigable in 1778 by engineers John Smith and John May and extended by William Jessop to Leicester in 1794. The Grand Union Canal (not to be confused with the later canal route of the same name) connected it south to the southern canals network and to London in 1814. It was not until 1894 that the Grand Union and the Leicestershire & Northamptonshire Union Canals were purchased by the Grand Junction Canal Company that later formed the Grand Union Canal who purchased the Leicester and Loughborough Navigations in 1932 along with the Erewash Canal.


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SK4929, 202 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David Lally   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 30 May, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 7 June, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 490 297 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:51.7966N 1:16.3635W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SK 490 297
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Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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