Coleford: site of Dorset & Somerset Canal
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Coleford: site of Dorset & Somerset Canal
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 8 Aug 2008
The canal was begun in the late 18th century but never completed and only sections of the 11-mile long arm from Frome to Nettlebridge, intended to tap the collieries in the valley, were constructed. Work had been abandoned by 1803. The main canal would have linked Bradford-on-Avon, on the Kennet & Avon canal with Sturminster Newton, on the river Stour, in Dorset
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Image Location
Latitude
51.237591
Longitude
-2.476083