A truncated stretch of the Grantham Canal
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A truncated stretch of the Grantham Canal
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 15 Apr 2011
This short stretch of the abandoned Grantham Canal runs behind the Forest football ground and joins the Trent just west of Lady Bay Bridge. Kate Jewell's Image] shows the lock there and Image] the Environment Agency office next to it, whose road entrance is here. To take the picture I stood roughly where the Nottingham-Melton-Kettering-St Pancras railway once crossed the canal. Behind the camera the canal has been filled in as far as the junction of Trent Boulevard and Radcliffe Road, where there was once a rather ornate bridge. Its reedy remains run parallel to Radcliffe Road from there to Gamston bridge.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.940173
Longitude
-1.130819