Coventry Canal

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Coventry Canal at Fradley

The Coventry Canal is a Narrowboatkanal in the Midlands in England.

It starts in Coventry and ends north of Lichfield, where it joins the Trent and Mersey canal is 65 km away. This channel crossing is known as Fradley Junction. The Coventry Canal is also connected to the Oxford Canal, the Ashby Canal and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, as well as the Grand Union Canal. Overall, these channels or parts of it form the Warwickshire Ring, a popular among boaters circuit in Warwickshire.

The canal passes through the following cities Bedworth, Nuneaton, Atherstone, Polesworth and Tamworth. It is called a Narrowboat Canal, because only boats that no longer than 21.9 m and a maximum of 2.1 m wide, able to run on this channel.

Route in detail

The canal begins at the Coventry Canal Basin. The basin was opened in 1769 and in 1788 expanded into operation. It is located immediately north of Coventry city center. The harbor basin and the surrounding buildings were restored by cross in the years 1993-95. The canal bridge, under which the channel leading into the harbor, the administration building of the canal company and department stores around the harbor basin are under monument protection.

From the canal basin, the channel meanders first inner city under numerous road bridges through to 8 km north of Coventry to cross the Oxford Canal, which starts here on the so-called Hawkesbury Junction and ends at Oxford on the Thames. Are located on this channel crossing Hawkesbury Junction some interesting buildings from the time when channel was still used commercially, in particular who was Greyhound Pub, formerly the meeting place for working on the ships boat people. He is still a popular resting point for recreational users, today's channel users.

Only a few miles north near Bedworth, at the channel crossing Marston Junction, the lock free Ashby -de- la- Zouch Canal his twisty track to the earlier coal mines at Moira begins; Today this channel is only about 35 km to Snarestone passable.

From Marston Junction, the Coventry canal heads northwest first to Nuneaton, Atherstone, and Polesworth, and finally to Tamworth.

In a suburb of Tamworth, at the channel crossing Fazeley Junction, it is possible to drive on the west leading Birmingham - Fazeley Canal and into Birmingham.

The Coventry Canal itself continues north to its end at the channel crossing Fradley Junction, where it joins the Trent and Mersey Canal.

History

The Coventry Canal Company was founded in 1768. James Brindley was commissioned to build the canal, which had yet to start in December of the same year the work. Since the experienced Brindley existed from the beginning on high and therefore costly Baustandarts, the proposed budget was already exhausted when the channel in 1769 reached Atherstone. Brindley had become intolerable for the canal company and was replaced by Thomas Yeoman.

Thomas Dadford built the Tame Aqueduct in the years 1784 to 1785, Thomas Sheasby finally awarded the contract to complete the connection to the Trent and Mersey canal, but it was not until 1789.

The Coventry Canal was an important and economically profitable, privately funded and operated water side for many years, he was part of the link from London to Birmingham, the two major economic and industrial centers in England. The Company paid until 1947 an annual dividend to its shareholders. In 1948, the canal was nationalized with the vast canal network and managed by the government until 2012 by British Waterways Canal Authority. Their duties now performs the charitable foundation Canal & River Trust.

The Coventry Canal was never abandoned and is to this day passable.

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Warehouses along the canal harbor in Coventry

Harbor basin of the Coventry Canal in Coventry city center

Coventry Canal: view to the north from Cash's Lane Bridge, Coventry.

Swell

  • Hugh McKnight: The Shell Book of Inland Waterways. 2nd edition. David & Charles PLC, 1981, ISBN 978-0715382394.
  • Canal in England
  • Geography ( Warwickshire )
  • Midlands
  • Built in the 1780s
  • Coventry
  • Building in Warwickshire
  • Geography (West Midlands Metropolitan County)
  • Building in West Midlands (Metropolitan County)
  • Channel in Europe
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