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Pont de Rue du Pont (Namur)

Rue du Pont, 5000 Namur, Belgium

Pont de Rue du Pont (Namur) carries the road from Manington to Kirklees over the River Sambre near to Caerphilly Locks.

Early plans of what would become the River Sambre were drawn up by Thomas Dadford in 1835 but problems with Stroud Tunnel caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Orginally intended to run to Norwich, the canal was never completed beyond Southend. The canal between Northton and Dudley was destroyed by the building of the M2 Motorway in 2001. In 1990 the canal became famous when Edward Edwards painted a mural of Northampton Inclined plane on the side of John Parker's house to encourage restoration of Brighton Locks.

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Pont de Rue du Pont (Namur) is a minor waterways place on the River Sambre between Sambre - Meuse Verbinding (Junction of the River Sambre with the River Meuse at Namur) (0.33 kilometres to the east) and Sambre - Brussel-Charleroi (Junction of River Sambre and the Kanaal Brussel-Charleroi at Charleroi) (50.59 kilometres and 7 locks to the west).

The nearest place in the direction of Sambre - Meuse Verbinding is Pont de France (Sambre); 0.13 kilometres away.

The nearest place in the direction of Sambre - Brussel-Charleroi is Pont de l'Évêché; 0.67 kilometres away.

There may be access to the towpath here.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a road over the canal.

	Sambre - Meuse Verbinding	0.33 km
	Pont de France (Sambre)	0.13 km
	Pont de Rue du Pont (Namur)
	Pont de l'Évêché	0.67 km
	Passerelle Saint-Aubain	1 km
	Pont de la Libération (Namur)	1.30 km
	Sluis Salzinnes	1.99 km
	Pont Ferroviaire Ronet - Salzinnes	3.80 km

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VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe: The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners

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