Atherstone Locks No 2, Coventry Canal, Warwickshire
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Atherstone Locks No 2, Coventry Canal, Warwickshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 10 Jun 2008
This is the second lock of eleven lowering the water level by eighty feet (24.4 metres) over about two miles (three kilometres). As the canal company had run out of money by 1771 when it reached Atherstone on its course from Coventry, these locks and the rest of the route were constructed later, eventually arriving at Fazeley in 1790.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.57537
Longitude
-1.551963