Grantham Canal - Lock 1 - Trent Lock - DISUSED - Nottingham, UK - Waterway Locks, Planes and Lifts on Waymarking.com

This was lock 1 on the Grantham canal called Trent lock and is now disused.

It was at the western end of the canal where it joined the River Trent. It is practically opposite the start of the Nottingham canal.

The Grantham canal ran 32 miles from Nottingham to Grantham through 18 locks. The locks were all broadbeam locks. Large stretches of the canal are still in water and a handful of locks still work.

If the propoal, in 1833, to build a 16 mile canal to Sleaford to Grantham had been accepted then the canal may have remained open as it would have given the Midlands a direct link to the sea at Boton without the need for transhipments at Shardlow on the Trent & Mersey and Torksey on the River Trent.

Waterway Name: Grantham canal Connected Points: The Grantham canal connected Grantham to the River Trent in Nottingham. There are no other connecting waterways but there had been a propoal in 1833 to build a 16 mile canal to Sleaford to Grantham. Type: Lock Date Opened: 01/01/1797 Date Closed (if applicable): 01/01/1937 Elevation Difference (meters): 2.00 Site Status: Inactive Web Site: [Web Link]

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