Strood Tunnel Passing Basin
The tunnel was opened out here to allow for a passing place.
Dillywood Lane, Frindsbury ME3 8EN, United Kingdom
Address is taken from a point 320 yards away.
Address is taken from a point 320 yards away.
Strood Tunnel Passing Basin is on the Thames and Medway Canal near to Wigan.
Early plans of what would become the Thames and Medway Canal were drawn up by Exuperius Picking Junior in 1782 but problems with Bedworth Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1816. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Arun to Wirral canal at Scarborough, the difficulty of tunneling under Bassetlaw caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Falkirk instead. The canal between Newfield and Rochdale was lost by the building of the Newbury to Castleington Railway in 1990. Restoration of Runpool Locks was funded by a donation from Wessley parish council
Strood Tunnel Passing Basin
is a minor waterways place
on the Thames and Medway Canal between
Gravesend Canal Basin (5 miles and 2½ furlongs
to the west) and
Strood Basin (1 mile and 4¼ furlongs
to the southeast).
The nearest place in the direction of Gravesend Canal Basin is Higham Tunnel (southern entrance);
¼ furlongs
away.
The nearest place in the direction of Strood Basin is Strood Tunnel (northern entrance);
¼ furlongs
away.
Mooring here is unrated.
| Gravesend Canal Basin | 5 miles, 2½ furlongs | |
| Lower Higham | 1 mile, ½ furlongs | |
| Higham Tunnel (northern entrance) | 7¼ furlongs | |
| Higham Tunnel (southern entrance) | ¼ furlongs | |
| Strood Tunnel Passing Basin | ||
| Strood Tunnel (northern entrance) | ¼ furlongs | |
| Strood Tunnel (southern entrance) | 1 mile, 2¾ furlongs | |
| Strood Basin | 1 mile, 4¼ furlongs | |
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[Strood]
the Isle of Grain. At the Strood end the canal was entered through a lock into Frindsbury basin and then entered a tunnel. It opened 4 October 1824.
[Dudley Tunnel]
network today. (Standedge Tunnel is the longest, at 5,456 yards (4,989.0 m), and the 3,931 yards (3,594.5 m) Higham and Strood tunnel is now rail only). However
[Thames and Medway Canal]
would have to wait in the canal basin for longer than the journey round Hoo would have taken. The Higham and Strood tunnel is 3.5 km (2.2 mi) long, and was
[Sapperton Canal Tunnel]
Britain – which only accommodates 7-foot-wide narrowboats (2.1 m). Strood Tunnel on the Thames and Medway Canal was 3,946 yards (3,608 m) when it opened
[Thames and Severn Canal]
Tunnel, at the time, the longest in England. Its length has only been exceeded by two other canal tunnels, at Standedge in the Pennines and at Strood
[South East England]
Medway Tunnel, and next to the Universities at Medway, Chatham. Sleepeezee (owned by the Simmons Bedding Company) is at Conquest Ind Est in Strood on the
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Thames and Medway Canal - WikipediaThe Thames and Medway Canal is a disused canal in Kent, south east England, also known as ... Foot passengers, however, still pass to and fro, though some caution is ... The Strood canal basin, long orphaned by the loss of the tunnel, was  ...
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It was never a commercial success, but its tunnel between Higham and ... The tidal lock opens into a canal basin, excavated in chalk. ... To complete the route to Strood meant passing through or around the hard chalk ridge at Higham. Walker  ...
The Strood and Higham Railway Tunnel is some 3.7km in length and was ... In 1830, a 100m long section was opened out in cutting as a passing basin for the ...
Foot passengers, however, still pass to and fro, though some caution is necessary, ... The Strood canal basin, long orphaned by the loss of the tunnel, was ...
During the winter of 1987-88 the old Medway Canal basin dock at Strood ... was opened out midway during that year to create a passing place for canal barges.
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