Lock sidepond north-west of Atherstone, Warwickshire
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Lock sidepond north-west of Atherstone, Warwickshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 19 Aug 2013
The side ponds are no longer in use on the Atherstone flight of locks. This one is by Lock No 4, looking north (downhill). There is a video on You-Tube showing one of the Atherstone sideponds being used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOgADpax2M On the Coventry Canal, the Atherstone flight of eleven lowers (or raises) 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
52.578073
Longitude
-1.553558