obscure canals

[magpie patrick]

Sometimes I get a bit cheesed off with all this technical stuff about boats: I'm a canal enthusiast not a boat enthusiast, so I wondered who would pick up on this one.

 

Entry number one

 

Hollins Canal

 

Crossed it several times in the last few days, although you wouldn't know unless you could see the rbidge parapet behind the regent cinema

 

entry number two

 

 

Compstall Navigation

 

Any more bids please

[Guest]

Nottingham Canal -

 

Looking South

 

 

looking North

 

Edited November 6, 2012 by The Dog House

[MartinClark]

Sometimes I get a bit cheesed off with all this technical stuff about boats: I'm a canal enthusiast not a boat enthusiast, so I wondered who would pick up on this one.

 

Entry number one

Hollins Canal

 

Crossed it several times in the last few days, although you wouldn't know unless you could see the rbidge parapet behind the regent cinema

 

entry number two

Compstall Navigation

 

Any more bids please

 

Also on Peter Whitehead's wonderful website:

The Stockport Navigation

(not to be confused with the Stockport Branch of the Ashton Canal.)

[mayalld]

Sometimes I get a bit cheesed off with all this technical stuff about boats: I'm a canal enthusiast not a boat enthusiast, so I wondered who would pick up on this one.

 

Entry number one

 

Hollins Canal

 

Crossed it several times in the last few days, although you wouldn't know unless you could see the rbidge parapet behind the regent cinema

 

 

If you are on a boat going through Marple Locks and know that it is there, it is very obvious.

 

Could I nominate that pound as "shortest pound to have two private branches leading off it"

[John Holden]

The Beat Bank branch off the Stockport branch of the Ashton Canal. Never even got finished!

[keble]

You'll know this one Patrick: Coombe Hill canal which branches of the Severn

[bizzard]

The Alimentary canal.

[Laurence Hogg]

Had a lot of fun trying to navigate the Westport canal in Somerset years ago with Chris Coburn, it was supposed to be "restored" but what we found was full of reeds, good fun though. Then theres the Eardingtoncanal with its tunnel off the Severn, thats overlooked by most. The Teme navigation fascinates me too.

[the grinch]

another very short canal. the brickworks arm at Dilham 100yards at most. continuation of Dilham Dyke Dilham Norfolk.

[Richard Fairhurst]

My local one: Cassington Cut.

[mykaskin]

I'll see your obscure canals, with an obscure canal off an obscure navigation:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aike_Beck

 

Mike

[Proper Job]

My local one: Cassington Cut.

That used to be a good mooring spot just off the river but it's now very overgrown.

 

I haven't stopped there for many many years, but there used to be stone walls from the old wharf and lock still surviving. As kids, we used to canoe up to Cassington village.

[Neil TNC]

Caistor Canal, off the River Ancholme

 

Wiki Linky

 

It is (was?) still navigable into the first lock chamber...but we hit capping stones / rocky debris.

Maybe worth further exploring as EA had a clear out in 2010.

 

Entrance to Caistor Canal

 

Caistor Canal, Beck End Lock

[antarmike]

Horncastle Canal? probably far to obvious?

[deletedaccount]

Bude canal?

 

http://www.bude-canal-trust.co.uk/index.html

[hughc]

Woodeaves Canal. North of Ashbourne near Fenny Bentley

 

Lea Wood or Nightingale arm off the Cromford.

[magpie patrick]

Woodeaves Canal. North of Ashbourne near Fenny Bentley

 

Lea Wood or Nightingale arm off the Cromford.

 

I think the Woodseaves Canal takes the prize for being the first one suggested I've never heard of!

 

The others would defintely be obscure by most boaters standards

 

So in this game or Mornington Canal, I'm going to suggest Sir Andrew Woods Canal, Fife

 

Sir Andrew Woods

[stagedamager]

Markeaton brook.

If this counts!!

[Laurence Hogg]

Markeaton brook.

If this counts!!

Definatly! One of Derby's best kept secrets but loads of evidence if you know where to look. Obscure but seemed to be a system within the city early on. I researchd this extensivly for my film "Navigation to Derby"

 

And of course the Chillington Hall canal, although in grounds designed by Capability Brown there is evidence that this once connected with the Shropshire Union canal in the westerly direction and the wolverhampton Turnpike in the easterly direction, still in the main in water!

Edited November 7, 2012 by Laurence Hogg

[hughc]

Markeaton brook and its possible branches is certainly allowable. When I worked in Agard Street in the 1960's there was still behind the laundry the remains of a wharf with ring(s) on the wall. This was only just downstream of the probable head of navigation. The Arm at Stoneyford on the Cromford which still exists as a dry ditch showing in places a perfect profile might also be included. Then of course there are the boating levels on mine soughs. I am sure that somewhere I have seen a photograph of a small boat tied at the mouth of the Meerbrook sough where it joins the Derwent.

[Neil TNC]

An Irish Nomination, that we explored with my Irish mate Brian Goggin.

 

The River Clodiagh and Portlaw Canal

 

BJG Linky

[MartinClark]

I think I'll give a quick mention to the former underground canal at Burbage, near Buxton.

[keble]

This one is close to home: the Cirencester Arm of the Thames & Severn.

It's not going to be restored - yet!

[Pluto]

I think I'll give a quick mention to the former underground canal at Burbage, near Buxton.

If you are going for underground canals, I have a list of around fifty, such as the one at Neston Colliery which headed out towards Wales under the Dee Estuary, or the one in a coal mine between Rochdale and Oldham.

[John Holden]

If you are going for underground canals, I have a list of around fifty, such as the one at Neston Colliery which headed out towards Wales under the Dee Estuary, or the one in a coal mine between Rochdale and Oldham.

 

Or the ones at Worsley, complete with inclined planes an' stuff.