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	Thames and Severn Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Thames and Severn Canal is a canal in the south of England, linking the River Thames to the River Severn, via Cricklade and Stroudwater.
		In a further attempt to prevent water loss the canal directly after the coates portal of the tunnel (know as the King's Reach) was lined with concrete rather than the normal puddle clay.
		In addition the original line (of the Stroudwater Navigation) near the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal has been lost in the construction of the M5 motorway and the road improvements on the A38 trunk road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thames_and_Severn_Canal (307 words)

	THAMES - LoveToKnow Article on THAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Thames is navigable for rowing-boats as far upwards as Cricklade, except in dry seasons, and for barges at all times as far as Lechlade, 18 m.
		A statute of 1393 was granted to the citizens of London to remove weirs on the Thames, and empowered the Lord Mayor to er,force its provisions.
		THAMES, a seaport and gold-mining centre in North Island, New Zealand, in the county and at the mouth of the river of its name, on the Firth of Thames, a deep inlet of the Hauraki Gulf of the east coast.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TH/THAMES.htm (2787 words)

	Encyclopedia: Thames and Severn Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a canal in the south west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness.
		Newtown (Welsh: Y Drenewydd) is a town with a population of 10,542 (1993) in Powys, in the traditional county of Montgomeryshire, mid Wales, lying on the River Severn.
		Severn Bridge The Welsh Bridge is a bridge in Shrewsbury which crosses the River Severn.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thames-and-Severn-Canal (1645 words)

	Thames & Severn Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Thames and Severn Company bought the adjacent mill pond and some surrounding land and built a small reservoir which is situated beside the canal on its northern bank.
		The canal was fed by Bakers Mill reservoir as well as a number of local springs and this extra water was certainly needed as the section between the next 2 locks (at Puck Mill) is the stretch which was once said to be losing water as fast as it could be fed in.
		The canal crossing is just a few hundred yards north of the railway bridge but the A433 has been realigned at the crossing point and the old Thames Head canal bridge is now on a quiet side road leading to some cottages which were once on the main road.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/thamessevernroute.htm (4998 words)

	Wilts and Berks Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilts and Berks Canal is, as its name suggests, a canal in the traditional counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, England.
		The main canal ran from Abingdon on the River Thames through Swindon to Semington on the Kennet and Avon Canal, a distance of about 60 miles.
		The branch from Swindon to Cricklade linking there to the Thames and Severn Canal was opened in 1819 and known as the North Wilts Canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilts_and_Berks_Canal (238 words)

	Stourbridge Extension Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A 7 mile barge canal with entrance locks and basins from Gravesend, on the Thames, to Strood, on the Medway.
		Thames and Medway Canal Association : Halting the deterioration of the canal and promoting its use as a multipurpose amenity.
		Was a 4 mile tub-boat canal from Tavistock, Devon, to the quay on the River Tamar.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Stourbridge-Extension-Canal.html (709 words)

	Thames & Severn Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, the Thames and Severn Canal was also built by local men as the route was constructed at a time of high unemployment in Gloucestershire due to a depression in the wool trade.
		In the years since, the canal restoration trust has run trips into the tunnel though the bore has been completely blocked for many years due to rock falls deep inside.Coates roundhouse, which is situated near to the tunnel, was later rescued from the threat of collapse.
		Support for the canal's restoration was growing all the time, hundreds of people had written to their local MP and each of the MP's, along with every local authority and the Environment Department pledged their support to the canal.
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/thamessevernroot.htm (3853 words)

	Thames and Severn Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The earth they removed from the bed of the canal formed the sides and towpath and the water was retained by a 12" thick layer of clay dug from the nearest pit.
		Canals are built to carry boats on water and as water runs down hill, the route of the canal has to be carefully chosen so that each stretch is perfectly level until the next lock is reached.
		Along the canal all the wooden lock gates are rotten and the stone and brick work is being pushed aside by bushes and trees.
	www.ox18.net /lechladethamescanal.htm (1555 words)

	River Thames : Thames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Part of the area west of London is sometimes termed the Thames Valley[?] whilst east of Tower Bridge development agencies and Ministers have taken to using the term "Thames Gateway".
		By the 18th century, the Thames was one of the world's busiest waterways, as London became the centre of the vast, mercantile British Empire.
		In return, the Thames has undergone a massive clean-up from the filthy days of the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries, and life has returned to its formerly dead waters.
	www.termsdefined.net /th/thames-%26-severn-canal.html (604 words)

	Society \| Grant for Thames-Severn canal
		The canal is part of the Environment Agency's strategy to transfer water from the west to the parched south-east and the idea was to pump surplus flow from the bottom of the Severn to the top of the Thames at Lechlade.
		The canal is in fact two waterways joined together by 18th century speculators, who bizarrely built locks of completely different sizes to accommodate the different vessels that plied the two rivers which were to be linked.
		The Stroudwater canal had locks 20.7 metres (68 ft) by 4.8 metres (16 ft) and the Thames and Severn Canal 27.4 metres (90ft) by 3.8 metres (12 ft 6in).
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4976007-106065,00.html (327 words)

	Grand Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Grand Union Canal was born out of frustration over the length and time taken to travel between the fast growing city of Birmingham and the country's capital, London.
		All the adjoining canals into Birmingham were narrow and the Oxford Canal (for one) steadfastly refused to widen any of its route which of course included narrow locks and tunnels.
		In June notices were posted on the canal instructing that all locks should be kept clear as troops on route for Liverpool would use the Grand Junction Canal from Blisworth (although the canal was not officially opened for another 2 years).
	www.canals.btinternet.co.uk /canals/grandunion.htm (6696 words)

	Thames and Severn Canal Chalford to Daneway
		These pictures were taken in April 2002 along the six kilometres of the Thames and Severn Canal between St Mary's Mill, Chalford and the Daneway portal of the Sapperton Tunnel.
		The large cavity under the cill is found on all of the locks on the upper reaches of the Thames and Severn.
		The canal was originally built to take 85 foot boats from the Thames as far as the Stroudwater canal, with transshipment to the shorter 70 foot standard of the latter taking place at Brimscombe Port.
	www.g4cio.demon.co.uk /ThamesandSevern/Chalford-Daneway/Chalford-Daneway.html (425 words)

	Dallaway Lock Rodborough Fort Stroud bank
		The whole eight and a quarter miles of the canal, to its terminus at Wallbridge, on the outskirts of Stroud, was opened on Wednesday 21 July 1779.
		Building of the canal was mired in controversy, with one lawsuit, two acts of Parliament and numerous disputes with land and mill owners.
		The Thames and Severn Canal was closed in stages; Inglesham to Chalford in 1927; Chalford to Wallbridge in 1933; and finally the original Stroudwater Canal closed in 1954.
	www.dallaway.org /lock1.htm (559 words)

	Thames and Severn Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Thames and Severn Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In addition the original line near the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal has been lost in the construction of the M5 motorway and the road improvements on the A38 trunk road.
		Forester published Hornblower and the Atropos (ISBN 0316289299), a historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Capt. Hornblower travels along the canal (including the tunnel) to London.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Thames_and_Severn_Canal (294 words)

	River Severn & River Thames barges
		In the 1950's the Severn still transported thousands of tons of fuel oil in tanker-barges but that ended very suddenly with the building of pipelines and the opening of the M5 motorway.
		Navigations feeding into the Thames estuary mainly employed craft developed from the old Thames sailing barges, flat bottomed boats fitted with huge sprit sails, lowering masts and leeboards to improve their windward sailing abilities.
		A Thames sailing barge passing Chatham dockyard under auxiliary power, with her mainsail brailed up above the spirit, the massive wooden spar that is so characteristic of these craft.
	www.canaljunction.com /craft/thamsevn.htm (681 words)

	Canal restoration news
		Recent research predicts that restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames and Severn Canal will be a catalyst for both urban and rural regeneration, would bring 1.7 million new visitor days to the area each year, generate £6.8 million per year for the local economy and create 200 permanent new jobs in tourism alone.
		The restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation and 4km of the Thames and Severn from Stroud to Brimscombe Port and the establishment of a walking trail across the entire 58km (36-mile) length.
		The restoration of the Thames and Severn Canal from the Thames at Inglesham to the Cotswold Water Park via Cricklade.
	www.canaljunction.com /news/restore2.htm (386 words)

	Thames and Severn Canal Stroud to Chalford
		These pictures were taken at Easter 2002 along the seven kilometres of the Thames and Severn Canal between Stroud and St Mary's Mill, Chalford.
		This stretch of canal varies from derelict industry to countryside, with many interesting old mills and architectural features to be seen.
		The blockage at Wallbridge, at the junction of the Stroudwater and Thames and Severn Canals
	www.g4cio.demon.co.uk /ThamesandSevern/Stroud-Chalford/stroud-chalford.html (175 words)

	My Holidays on Inland Waterways - Cruise XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reaching Thames Head Bridge on the Thames and Severn Canal, we left the car and walked along that picturesque part of the canal for about half a mile till we came to some typically rural cottages on the farther bank, and hereabouts was our destination.
		After scaling a wall by the canal side, we scrambled down the steep and rough hillside, and after some little difficulty we were pleased to discover the famous tree at Thames Head, bearing the mystic letters " T.H." cut thereon, with the King's arrow overhead.
		After our Thames Head experience, we motored to Sapperton, where there is the second longest canal tunnel in England, and there the view from the Dane way end, looking down to the Golden Valley, near Stroud, is perhaps as picturesque as one could wish.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/MHIWc11.htm (954 words)

	BBC - Gloucestershire Features - Cotswold Canal Campaign
		There are people who want to reopen the canal link through the Cotswolds and those who have spent the last 15 years filling in the hole in the garden where it once ran.
		For some it's the memory of a relative who worked on the canal before its closure in the 1940s, for some a way of keeping active in retirement, and for others it's a way of keeping alive a fond memory of a narrow boat holiday many years ago on the Grand Union canal.
		Conservation of natural habitat along the Stroud canal corridor is one of the major concerns of the restorers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/focus/2003/06/canals.shtml (1199 words)

	Thames and Severn Canal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It runs just under 29 miles from Wallbridge to Inglesham (A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed) Lock.
		In a further attempt to prevent water loss the canal directly after the coates portal of the tunnel (know as the King's Reach) was lined with (A strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water) concrete rather than the normal puddle clay
		Forester published Hornblower and the Atropos (ISBN 0316289299), a historical novel set during the (A series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times; 1799-1815) Napoleonic Wars, in which Capt. Hornblower travels along the canal (including the tunnel) to London.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thames_and_severn_canal.htm (270 words)

	Background : British Waterways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Originally conceived in the late 17th century, the canal was planned in the 1720s and opened in 1779.
		Opened in 1789 the 29-mile (46km) Thames and Severn Canal was built to connect the Stroudwater Navigation to the Thames at Inglesham - creating a through route from the River Severn to London.
		The Cotswold Canals Trust (CCT) continues to raise funds for the restoration of the Stroudwater and Thames and Severn Canals.
	www.britishwaterways.co.uk /cotswolds/background/background.html (538 words)

	CRICKLADE - LoveToKnow Article on CRICKLADE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is pleasantly situated in the plain which borders the south bank of the Thames, not far from the Thames and Severn Canal.
		Legend makes Cricklade the abode of a school of Greek philosophers before the Roman conquest, and the name is given as Greeklade in Draytons Polyolbion.
		There was a mint at Cricklade in the time of Edward the Confessor and William I., and William of Dover fortified a castle here in the reign of Stephen.
	57.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CR/CRICKLADE.htm (390 words)

	Report to the Board of Trade on the Thames and Severn Canal
		Boyle describes the course of the waterway between Inglesham, by the Thames, to the Stroud Water Canal at Wallbridge.
		A high branch of the canal near Cirencester is noted as having particular leakage problems.
		Lack of dredging on the upper Thames hinders access to the canal and substantial investment would be required to remedy all such problems.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref4762.html (175 words)

	:: Countryside-Matters ::
		he Stroudwater and the Thames and Severn Canals traverse some of the most beautiful parts of the English countryside, rich in mills and flowing water for the once prosperous woollen industry.
		From Stroud the Thames and Severn Canal rises through the spectaular Golden Valley to the summit and the 2 miles long Sapperton Tunnel, for many years the longest canal tunnel in Britain.
		he Thames and Severn Canal was later conceived to connect the two great rivers of England, the Severn and Thames.
	countryside-matters.co.uk /cotswoldcanals.html (270 words)

	Cotswold Canals Trust
		Sections of the canal are now in water and the Trust runs a trip boat on some of them.
		The Trust is part of the Cotswold Canals Partnership which includes British Waterways, the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and local authorities.
		The restoration of the Cotswold Canals as a navigable route from Saul Junction to the River Thames.
	www.cotswoldcanals.com (211 words)

	Cotswold Canals FAQ Page
		In some places, especially on the Thames and Severn canal, water is seasonal due to the leaky bed.
		The Oxford Canal is a narrow canal and is being used for water transfer.
		Heritage is very much part of the attraction of the Cotswold Canals and the Heritage Lottery Fund stipulates restoration/conservation of artefacts to the original.
	www.cotswoldcanals.com /faq.htm (1097 words)

	History - The Canal
		The Thames and Severn Canal was authorised by Act of Parliament of 1783.
		The cutting of the canal bed through South Cerney was done from about the end of 1787 to some time in 1788.
		In 1798 the canal company were acting as coal merchants and kept a stock of 442 tons of coal at South Cerney wharf for sale.
	www.southcerney.org.uk /history_canal.htm (627 words)

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