Nottingham Canal Flood Marker - Nottingham, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 52° 56.850 W 001° 08.383
30U E 624989 N 5868049
This high level marker on the canal towpath is next to a railway bridge leading to Nottingham Railway Station.
Waymark Code: WM11XAD
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/03/2020
Views: 4
"The Nottingham Canal is a canal in the English counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. As built, it comprised a 14.7-mile (23.7 km) long main line between the River Trent just downstream of Trent Bridge in Nottingham and Langley Mill in Derbyshire. At the same time as the main line of the canal was built by its proprietors, the separate Trent Navigation Company built the Beeston Cut, from the main line at Lenton in Nottingham to rejoin the River Trent upstream of Nottingham, thus bypassing the difficult section of navigation through Trent Bridge. The section of the main line between Trent Bridge and Lenton, together with the Beeston Cut, is still in use, forming part of the navigation of the River Trent and sometimes referred to as the Nottingham & Beeston Canal. The remainder of the main line of the canal beyond Lenton has been abandoned and partially filled."
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The River Trent is succeptible to flooding and because the Nottingham Canal is fed by it, the floods can also affect the canal.
This marker shows the level of a flood that occurred in 1852.