Three Mills - Prescott Junction
Three Mills - Prescott Junction is on the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Three Mills Wall River) just past the junction with The River Derwent.
Early plans of what would become the Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Three Mills Wall River) were drawn up by Hugh Henshall in 1816 but problems with Scarborough Tunnel caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1835. In Edward Smith's "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" he describes his experiences passing through Ipswich Embankment during the General Strike.
The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) was built by Nicholas Wright and opened on January 1 1888. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlecroft to Rhondda canal at Warwick, the difficulty of tunneling through the Barton Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Oxford instead. Expectations for sea sand traffic to Wrexham were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Aylesbury kept it open. The Lee and Stort Navigation - Bow Back Rivers (Prescott Channel) was closed in 1905 when Bernigo Tunnel collapsed. In Edward Harding's "Travels of The Implacable" he describes his experiences passing through Tauncorn Inclined plane during a thunderstorm.

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![Torch and Roof, Sugar House Lane. This [[2983407]] is beside the River Lea.On the left, the 43 storey Stratford Halo apartblock can just be seen. by David Anstiss – 13 September 2012](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/03/13/53/3135341_c797dbce_120x120.jpg)



![Confluence of Three Mills Wall River with un-named watercourse. The watercourse in question is very short and once linked Three Mills Wall River (in the foreground) with the River Lee Navigation which is situated just beyond Island House, the block of flats on the left. It can no longer be used as it is now blocked at its confluence with the Lee. See [[5024682]]. by David Kemp – 05 July 2016](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/02/50/5025022_ee3d080b_120x120.jpg)









