Lift bridge Somerset Coal Canal
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Lift bridge Somerset Coal Canal
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 30 Apr 1989
Entry and exit from the Brassknocker Basin to the Kennet and Avon canal by Dundas Aqueduct. In 1985 restoration began on the first quarter mile section of the 10 mile Somerset Coal Canal to Paulton that was opened in 1801 and closed in 1898. Mr. Hedley Smith and Mr. Tim Wheeldon formed the new Somerset Coal Canal Company and acquired the land and dug out and relined the old canal bed. The stop lock in the now private lockkeeper's cottage garden only had a rise of 7" so didn't need reinstating. The short tunnel under the A36/Warminster road was excavated and turned into a dry dock.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.361394
Longitude
-2.311951