IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Saxon Field, SHEFFORD, SG17 5GN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Saxon Field, SG17 5GN by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (20 Images Found)
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River Flit (former Ivel Navigation), Shefford
The navigation used both the Rivers Flit and Hit for two short terminal branches in Shefford. This is the branch to the North Bridge limit of navigation, where the principal wharf was.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Mar 2016
0.10 miles
2
River Flit (former Ivel Navigation), Shefford
Looking downstream. The navigation used both the Rivers Flit and Hit for two short terminal branches in Shefford. This is the branch to the North Bridge limit of navigation about 80 m behind the camera, where the principal wharf was.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Mar 2016
0.12 miles
3
Former course of Ivel Navigation, Shefford
The natural course of the River Flit bends round to the left via a former mill, The navigation lock cut went straight on here, to the left of the now tarmac towpath. The lock was at the far end just before rejoining the river. There is now no trace of cut or lock which have been filled in or apparently dismantled.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Mar 2016
0.14 miles
4
Waterway junction, Shefford
The Rivers Flit and Hit come together. They were used up to the 1870s for the two terminal branches of the Ivel Navigation to North Bridge (far, Flit) and South Bridge (near, Hit).
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Mar 2016
0.15 miles
5
The Wharf on Northbridge Street, Shefford
By the River Ivel, no connection to the dairy related saint of the same name.
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 6 Sep 2020
0.18 miles
6
North Bridge and Northbridge Wharf, Shefford
This was the main terminus of the Ivel Navigation, with a public wharf. A branch to South Bridge was apparently used for traffic to a tannery. The navigation was formally abandoned in 1876 after some years of very little use. The locks on the navigation were 110' by 12', presumably to handle a pair of fen lighters, about 48' long by 10'-6" beam. Even allowing for the fact that the present bridge is a modern replacement, encroaching a little on the wharf area here, there seems no room to turn a lighter. I believe this was not necessary, as the lighters were double ended with no rudder, navigated in close coupled trains of at least two. They were steered by a man on one lighter manipulating a sort of tiller rigidly fixed to the other.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Mar 2016
0.19 miles
8
Parking area at the back of The White Hart, Shefford
Image: © Rob Purvis
Taken: 28 Sep 2013
0.19 miles
9
Water Course through Shefford
Becomes the River Ivel (navigation) disused after the bridge. So for a period in history a canal arm from the River Ivel proper was linked back to Shefford. Further reading http://www.canalroutes.net/Ivel-River.html
Image: © Michael Trolove
Taken: 17 Mar 2013
0.20 miles
10
The Brewery Tap, Shefford
On Northbridge Street.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 13 Mar 2016
0.22 miles